I just finished the migration of all the bash scripts we are using for integration tests (many laugh at me at Devoxx about my bash knowledge :), and it was an amazing experience.For me Groovy is the choice for a dynamic language on the JVM, and is very easy to learn for Java developers. Looking at something like easyb I think Groovy is going to be big for test platforms (Flexibility is a lot more critical than performance). Now I have a really nice test environment, thank you Groovy!
On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 2:56 AM, Dick Wall <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Folks > > I wanted to assure people that I love the Groovy, I really do, and I > like Guillaume, Graeme et al tremendously. > > We actually had quite a few news items for Groovy in 2008 (just search > for groovy or grails in the search box on the javaposse.com site to > see). However, I feel that there were quite a small number of news > items to actually report on and this is what I was trying to > communicate in the episode. It's always good to see big news items > like "company X is writing its new super-web-app using grails" - and I > think there was one of those during the year, but it just felt to me > that not many crossed my news filter, which I like to think is a > fairly unbiased way of assessing the ebb and flow of the industry (I > try to keep the feed selection broad and include digg searches and > other things like that). > > I hope that a 1.6 or 2.0 release will get a bit more notice for Groovy > going again, and I certainly didn't mean to alienate any one. From the > comment by Vince O'Sullivan on this topic, I am not the only one that > feels like it might be slipping away. I say these things with love, > honestly. My perfect future has Scala and Groovy as the modern > language options on the JVM. > > Cheers > > Dick > > On Jan 5, 3:37 pm, greggobridges <[email protected]> wrote: > > 1)The whiteboards at Devoxx (http://www.jroller.com/scolebourne/entry/ > > devoxx_2008_whiteboard_votes) declared that groovy was the most > > popular JVM language that is not Java (37%, compared to 22% for scala > > and 10% for jruby). It's not scientific, but it's worth something. > > 2)Groovy had 74,000 downloads in November 2008 (I don't have scala's > > november numbers, but it comes to less than 3,000 for December 2008). > > 3)Groovy was recently acquired by SpringSource > > 4)Take a look at a session list from the 'No Fluff Just Stuff' tour > > and tell me that Groovy is not gaining momentum. > > > > The Posse said that there was not much groovy news. The only news that > > was reported on the podcast was the aforementioned acquisition, as > > well as the December release of v1.5.1 (reported in January); however, > > groovy is now at 1.5.7 with a RC for 1.6 available. The eclipse groovy > > plugin was updated, and netbeans added groovy support in 6.5 (not > > reported in the news, but by Tor as an aside in the Holiday podcast). > > > > As a Groovy user, in 2008 I felt like the Scala Posse's redheaded > > little brother <smack!>. > > > -- http://www.jfrog.org/ http://freddy33.blogspot.com/ http://nothingisinfinite.blogspot.com/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
