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by vorg 11y ago
Did you know Groovy was booted off the Codehaus hosting service and its 3 developers retrenched by Pivotal,Inc last January? And Groovy's backup plan to join Apache via its incubator is a hoax, just providing a cover story for a non-te
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by vorg 11y ago
> Perhaps the most significant is improved compiler performance with a new Abstract Syntax Tree (AST) class reader in place of using class loading tricks. The Groovy compiler starts by compiling scripts to a Concrete Syntax Tree (CST) Ra
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by vorg 11y ago
Some outfits don't just do fake searches but also fake downloads. E.g. visit https://bintray.com/groovy/maven/groovy/view/statistics#stat... then click on date range "1 year" and wonder wh
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by vorg 11y ago
5 years is a long time in IT. Gradle has a millstone called "Groovy" around its neck because of an early poor choice to ship with only one configuration language. Maybe they'll enable more languages to be plugged in later on,
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by vorg 11y ago
> Are there any other intelligent planet-dwellers near other stars, who contemplate a coincidence of sun and moon as we do? Coincidence? Did the occasional perfect eclipse with a corona have some nudging effect on some stage of the evolu
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by vorg 11y ago
> I can probably count on one hand the situations when a counter-based loop is necessary Such counting is analagous to counter-based looping. If you'd said "I can probably filter down to the fingers of one hand..." I might
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by vorg 11y ago
> properties. (In a groovy class they're threated like a map Except in hard to remember special cases like .class which gives the class "LinkedHapMap" of the map object instead of the value at key "class". After
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by vorg 11y ago
Groovy's always been OK for quick and dirty testing of Java classes, though the statement label hack that Spock uses makes Groovy look trashy. The static compilation that came with Groovy 2.0 is what no-one should touch if they don&#x2
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by vorg 11y ago
This explanation still leaves open the question "why is gravity no faster than light?"
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by vorg 11y ago
> both being long-ranged because their symmetries are not broken I guess this is the property of both that appears similar, and it just seems more than coincidental that two of the four (or five) fundamental constants of nature describe
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by vorg 11y ago
His view on advances in Computer Science in the future... > we make a lot of progress, we are able to undertake bigger projects, we can build things which are much more interesting and sophisticated than what we could do 10 years ago. [.
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by vorg 11y ago
> I always wondered how much power could be saved if those platforms would be implemented nearer to the metal. > JPHP where PHP could run on top of the JVM, since that introduces way more languages like Scala, Groovy, Java itself Usin
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by vorg 11y ago
> Are some [constants] more fundamental than others? [...] one useful choice has been just three: h, c and G, collectively representing relativity and quantum theory. In 1899, Max Planck, who founded quantum physics, examined the relatio
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by vorg 11y ago
You seem to live in a base-tenny world. Many nerdies train themselves to do hex mental math in kindergarten, and the geekies do it base-36 because those extra letters "are there". So perhaps a 256 to 1296 multiplication ratio (th
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by vorg 11y ago
Even if China-based users could access content China wants censored, such as the linked NY Times article, there's still the issue of getting thru the paywall that NY Times and others puts up to keep users out.
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by vorg 11y ago
Since Grails 3.0, Grails is a wrapper around Gradle also. The Grails 1.0 backing company G2One,Inc got bought by SpringSource a year after it was formed, which was the true purpose of Grails bundling Spring, i.e. to muscle in on SpringSourc
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by vorg 11y ago
Groovy hasn't kept up with Java's syntax extensions in Java 8. You'd be better off using Java 8 than Groovy, if only because Oracle's committed to maintaining Java whereas Groovy was ditched by its only financial sponsor
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by vorg 11y ago
Because Maven (the tool) offers XML as the language, we can put any other language atop it, e.g. with https://github.com/takari/polyglot-maven we can use Clojure, Groovy, Ruby, or Scala as the language. Gradle offers o
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by vorg 11y ago
> I'm not really a programmer. All my training is in abstract math Back in mainframe days, that training would've been the easiest way to get work as a programmer. Nowadays, much "programming" is gluing together pre-w
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by vorg 11y ago
The term full-stack was quickly picked up by other more contrived "stacks" besides the well-known ones (cloud, mobile, web, PC, mainframes, etc) and used to promote their own gimmicky products, and as an excuse to muscle in on
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by vorg 11y ago
> Closure is just a piece of code you can pass and later execute. Some say we will have those in Java in 2128 with the release of Java 37. Java 8 brought "lambdas", which behave similarly to Groovy's closures, though witho
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by vorg 11y ago
> With Java 8 there isn't a lot from the likes of Python and Ruby I miss anymore. Groovy will be feeling the heat here for its original use case. With the lambdas and terseness in Java 8, there's not a lot of reasons for it to
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by vorg 11y ago
If Gradle's configuration API was opened up so other languages besides Groovy were allowed, such as Clojure, Scala, JRuby, and even Jython, Gradle would attract a lot more developers who are put off by Groovy. Even Gradle's websit
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by vorg 11y ago
> Android Studio and the Gradle plugin are really, really coming along Too bad Gradle only allows us to use one language (i.e. Groovy) to configure the builds. Because Maven uses generic XML, any language can sit atop it. E.g. Polyglot M
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by vorg 11y ago
> Apache Groovy 1.7.0 through 2.4.3 Groovy isn't an Apache project, it's merely sitting in their incubator and may not be promoted to a full Apache project if its project managers don't get their act together with integrat
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by vorg 11y ago
> Groovy is becoming an ASF project Groovy has lingering problems in migrating to builds.apache.org, see [1]. Some of the Groovy despots from Codehaus times (I wouldn't know which ones specifically) are keeping some computing machin
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by vorg 11y ago
Thanks, I didn't think about it too hard.
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by vorg 11y ago
Maybe that can be the 8 hours a day people do their office jobs.
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by vorg 11y ago
> a large company behind them. Scala, Clojure and Groovy are doing fine You do know VMware/Pivotal pulled their support for Groovy in March this year and no-one else stepped in, don't you?
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by vorg 11y ago
You didn't identify yourself, any of the bugs you fixed, or even had any identifying comment history here in Hacker News. You did , however, identify the open source community you worked in. Because someone in that particular communit

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