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by vorg 11y ago
I remember Groovy didn't allow ? on indexes like in the third C# example: int? count = customers?[0]?.Orders?.Count(); I remember asking for it but it never came. I don't think Ruby's proposed .? syntax would work with
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by vorg 11y ago
> AUGUST 28, 2015 [...] I did not include Groovy [...] because I currently have no interest in Groovy. Tsssk, tssk, you wrote that on the 12th anniversary of the Groovy creator's announcement of the language at http://rad
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by vorg 11y ago
Australia along with Canada have the highest wealth per person of any countries in the world. Much of the wealth comes from a large land area divided by a tiny population. I remember reading in an Australian magazine about 15 yrs ago (but f
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by vorg 11y ago
> The struggle between gravitational attraction and the expansion of the Universe actually had its end determined some six billion years ago, when dark energy became the dominant factor in our Universe. At that point, any objects that we
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by vorg 11y ago
There's nothing anywhere about Groovy moving to Apache or looking for another governance structure during the years Codehaus was winding down. It was only first mentioned online about a week after the layoffs from Pivotal were announce
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by vorg 11y ago
> Arbitrary precision floating point arithmetic is available through [...] the core data type BigFloat in the new language Julia Go 1.5 added a big.Float type.
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by vorg 11y ago
> We moved the Groovy project to the Apache Foundation as a message to the community to say that the community and ecosystem matter the most You moved it to Apache because all the three staff working on Groovy were retrenched from Pivota
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by vorg 11y ago
> the problem of English is not ..teens, but the pronounciation of numbers. Chinese or Korean has one simple syllable for each number I once found when mentally tallying points while grading papers, instead of saying "and a half&quo
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by vorg 11y ago
Most decades have the same name. The only ones different are "twen" for "two", "thir" for "three", and "fif" for "five", which all sound very similar anyway so there's not rea
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by vorg 11y ago
> Existential operator accessor (?.) is a leaky abstraction for null I found this out the hard way when using it in groovy a while back. The Options abstraction you describe is better, or the one in Java 8, which Groovy still hasn&#x27
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by vorg 11y ago
> they adapted their first program to an Unicode world: "Hello, 世界." Would be nice if you could compose those complicated Unicode characters from simpler building blocks, e.g. fmt.Printf("Hello, %a", "→↘𠃊廿↓
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by vorg 11y ago
I've found Groovy's only good for dynamically typed code... * the stuff you want to write quickly but don't mind it running slowly, i.e. throwaway code * the small stuff you know won't become a larger system one day, e.g
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by vorg 11y ago
These types of people don't just get themselves into recruiter roles lying about vacancies and candidates to swindle clients and skim the takings, but also into roles managing open source projects lying about download numbers and fakin
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by vorg 11y ago
> They all answer that they got your CV from the recruiter I've never known recruiter scum to send out a CV without my name, contact details, and references stripped out.
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by vorg 11y ago
> According to the FBI, there have been close to two hundred such incidents in the last 15 years, resulting in the murder of 486 people and the wounding of 557 as of September last year According to https://en.wikipedia.org&#x
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by vorg 11y ago
There's a Unicode cost to Korea's writing system: it needs 11,172 codepoints to represent. This is because there are 19 mandatory leading consonants, 21 mandatory vowels, and 27 optional trailing consonants, giving a total of 19 x
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by vorg 11y ago
Groovy is not small, it's huge... and sloooooooooow.
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by vorg 11y ago
Before Groovy was Beanshell, which was Groovy's inspiration. And of course Groovy's creator, James Strachan, did say if he'd known about Scala at the time, he'd never have created Groovy. And Groovy's quite weighty
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by vorg 11y ago
Saw a pair of large antlers stuck to the top of a car yesterday.
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by vorg 11y ago
> People believe transit has collective benefits that don't require their personal usage People with cars still want to live close to the subway station so they can use it on Sunday afternoons when there's no parking 5 kilomete
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by vorg 11y ago
> Java is still considered THE enterprise language. Other languages have invaded that enterprise dominance by running on the JVM. This includes languages like Scala (which was designed for the JVM) and languages like JPython I'm alw
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by vorg 11y ago
When surveillance systems are put in place and collected information stored for later use, irrespective of whether it's a personal, business, or government system, the people who get themselves in control of them will use the surveilla
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by vorg 11y ago
> other "entrepreneurs" involved with Groovy keep hundreds of HN logins each > post comments under my own name, as I suspect you also do I would agree probably 2 or 3 people -- I never said "hundreds" of people,
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by vorg 11y ago
> you seem to go out of your way to find any and every thread that mentions Groovy in any way, and then launch into your rant The most significant thing you've really said here is that I generally post comments under my own name, as
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by vorg 11y ago
You could be right about Bazel's unsuitability for open source software. > The following constructs have been added to the core build language: if statements, for loops, and function definitions The whole point of using a declarativ
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by vorg 11y ago
Groovy's always been good from the very beginning for quick and dirty Java class manipulation, such as test scripts. It found use in Grails when they added a MOP to simulate Rails's ActiveRecord, but Grails is declining quickly --
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by vorg 11y ago
OK, Groovy wasn't explicitly booted off. But I'm wondering why Codehaus closed down when 5 years ago they were saying Groovy was their most popular project in terms of page accesses and downloads. Weren't the Groovy project t
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by vorg 11y ago
You didn't comment on any of the specifics mentioned in that linked-to comment, instead you attacked my behavior, just like one replier to that comment. You mentioned Groovy moving to the ASF in another comment above, but if only two p
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by vorg 11y ago
> Maven is obsolete. Just use Gradle. Until something better comes along. Google released Bazel a few months ago, which runs on Linux, tho not Windows, and fully supports JVM-hosted software. It's better than Gradle, so why not move
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by vorg 11y ago
You created an anonymous HN user specifically to attack someone's motives instead of discussing the issue of people using the Apache Software Foundation as a cover to hide their effective ownership of some open source software built at

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