I think groovy is a good name myself. Why does software have to be dry? Anyway, Groovy 2.0 will kill Groovy++.
But I think annotations are the wrong way to add static to the lang. Guessing they had to for backwards compatibility? Ugly. As I've said before, I think if groovy had been created as a statically typed language in the first place, it would be much more popular than it is. On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 7:31 PM, Jon Kiparsky <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. -- 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.
