Hi, During the brief discussion of groovy's upcoming static typing I feel groovy++ deserves to be mentioned as well. It is an extension/ companion for the current groovy release. It retains all of the groovy goodness and adds static typing with a simple annotation. The static typing is both at compile time (*) and at runtime. The lack of runtime enhancements (MOP) gives it a clear performance boost compared to dynamic groovy.
I used this in small project and it gives you all the enhancements to Collection API, closures, terse syntax etc of groovy while being typed like java. Personally, that's all I need. It is no clear to me what the "interactions" are between the groovy++ and groovy project since the latter does not seem to refer to the existing groovy++ work much. Politics perhaps? More info and benchmarks at http://code.google.com/p/groovypptest/wiki/Welcome Regards, Johan (*) From G. Laforge's talk @devoxx2011 I remember that initially the type checking will be compile time only. Maybe that changed in the meanwhile. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "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.
