On Wednesday, March 30, 2011 6:07:21 PM UTC+11, Joe Sondow wrote: > > At Netflix a lot of teams have started choosing Groovy and Grails to > build apps for in-house use and for business partners to use. In other > words, web apps that don't need the highest commitment to scalability > and are usually managed by small teams. My job is full time on a cloud > deployment utility app written in Grails, with some JavaScript. I know > of at least 3 other teams using Grails. I started an internal Grails > email discussion list and 17 people joined right away, so there are > probably a few more Grails apps within Netflix. > > My comments were about general use but rather something that makes a bigger impact on the world of developers. Im talking about big f/w that changed how so much is done for better or worse, like Hibernate, Spring, Lucene etc.
> Pretty much all of Netflix's public facing services are written in > Java. The Groovy usage is very small in comparison to the Java. My > coworker is starting a Scala project, which might be the first > significant Scala project at the company. > > Paul, thanks for the tip about CodeNarc. I'll have to try that out. As > my app grows it does get a little tiresome to have occasional type > checking errors. > > Carl and I talked about all this recently on the Grails Podcast if > you're interested in more details: http://grailspodcast.com/blog/id/244 > -- 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.
