Re: What's the status of the Gpars library ?

2017-10-13 Thread Sergio Del Amo
Yes, GPars is alive. A couple of links about concurrency http://search.groovycalamari.com/?query=Concurrency Sergio > On 13 Oct 2017, at 21:07, Christian Sperandio > wrote: > > Hi, > > I want to learn more about concurrency programming in Groovy and I’ve found > the Gpars library. > But

What's the status of the Gpars library ?

2017-10-13 Thread Christian Sperandio
Hi, I want to learn more about concurrency programming in Groovy and I’ve found the Gpars library. But in the maven repository, the last version dates on 2014. Is this project live anymore ? Or this library is so stable and it doesn’t need more changes. Chris

Re: Consider statically typed/compiled as default for Groovy 3.0

2017-10-13 Thread Cédric Champeau
Wise words, Paul. I would also very much prefer to see progress in the Java 9 area rather than this, or even the parser. It's much more relevant to the future of Groovy IMHO. Because, as the ticket explains, there's already ways to enable this feature (even if a bit cumbersome). It's really of that

Re: Consider statically typed/compiled as default for Groovy 3.0

2017-10-13 Thread Paul King
I think most committers are also keen on making progress in the directions you describe. Not along the lines of watering down Groovy's dynamic capabilities but certainly in terms of making Groovy's static nature as hassle free as possible to use. Having said that, we have limited resources, so we n

Consider statically typed/compiled as default for Groovy 3.0 - PS

2017-10-13 Thread MG
PS: Just reread my post from yesterday, and wanted to add that I am of course happy that, like I said earlier, according to one study/metric it looks like Groovy is currently the #2 JVM language (with 3%) :-) However, since it is "like Java, just better", I am convinced it could be much higher (