It may make me a bad person, or a shallow one, but I cannot conceive of learning a language called "groovy". The idea simply turns my stomach. Could they not have come up with a less awful name? Like, maybe "scrotum"?
On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 1:11 PM, parentjo <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > > -- 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.
