Even James Strachan himself, creator of the language, doesn't believe it could ever be a suitable heir apparent to Java.
In his own words: http://macstrac.blogspot.com/2009/04/scala-as-long-term-replacement-for.html You need only read the back catalogue of this mailing list to see how much people appreciate the safety that static typing can add to your code, in addition to the potential that it offers for refactoring and other tools. That kind of thing is *not* given up lightly. It's for this reason that, while a dynamically typed language may well succeed dramatically on the jvm, it could ever be Java.next() On 7 May 2011 20:26, "phil swenson" <[email protected]> wrote: > I was thinking about this the other day - why is groovy never > mentioned as java.next? > > then today I saw this nice write up on groovy as "java.next()": > http://batsov.com/2011/05/06/jvm-langs-groovy.html > > I've been doing a lot of groovy lately as we are reworking our entire > build/test/automation system in gradle. I really like the > language.... it's much more enjoyable to code in that java. Not only > is the language nice, but they cleaned up a lot of crappy Java APIs. > All the stuff that apache commons does to make what should be simple > data structure/file/xml/string/io tasks easy, groovy monkey patched to > provide directly in the Java APIs. (e.g. File.text reads in a file as > a string) > > *BUT* I don't think it's java.next. If groovy had decided to do > static typing way back when I think it would already be java.next (w/ > optional dynamic typing). But they didn't so it's simply too slow... > and a dynamically typed language will never have the quality of IDE > tooling that Java enjoys. Just isn't doable. > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
