> Many great foss libraries have come out since the Scala, Groovy and friends > have come out. Given the advantages of these languages surely they should > have come out w/ something really big that catches everyones attention. In > terms of the JVM platform i cant see any impact besides the langauges > themselves on the entire ecosystem...
I think Grails, Gradle, and Griffon have caught a lot of attention. Gradle may still need some work before people trust it as the new great recommendation for build frameworks, but it might get there soon. Grails makes building web apps orders of magnitude easier than some other popular web frameworks like Struts or JSF. Griffon shrinks down Swing code to something more readable and intuitive for a block of GUI code. Just because a language comes out doesn't mean that's the year when the development community as a whole starts using the language to make their big new open source projects. Adoption of something new takes time. For big important projects a lot of developers like to use a language they already have a few years of experience with. -- 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.
