On Wednesday, March 30, 2011 6:19:51 PM UTC+11, Joe Sondow wrote: > > > > 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. > > At most Grails & Griffon by their very nature are only available to Groovy users which again means they are qutie small compared to the rest.
> 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. Of course not, but its been a while for G and S no one is expecting immediate germination of great things but still... -- 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.
