Rise and fall of JVM languages

Re:Rise and fall of JVM languages by olavgg on Monday August 21, 2017 @05:59AM (#15063298)

We use Groovy in production, working with SQL, Transactions or JSON is much easier than Java. Meta programming and Traits are other advantages. The biggest advantage is that it is so similar to Java code, that any Java developer can pick it up and understand it immediately.

We still love and use Java a lot and they both complement each other very well.

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Re:Rise and fall of JVM languages by vorg on Monday August 21, 2017 @02:55PM (#15066773)

> it is so similar to Java code, that any Java developer can pick it up

Perhaps Java 7, but Apache Groovy doesn't have the lambda syntax from Java 8. Development on Groovy has stagnated -- someone even contributed a fully working Antlr-4 based parser to replace their outdated Antlr-2 based one last year, but it's been sitting in their development repository at Github going nowhere ever since.

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Re:Rise and fall of JVM languages by crazypyro on Monday August 21, 2017 @11:37AM (#15065320)

We use Groovy at my work in a majority of our projects as well. I love traits and some of the other shortcuts and I don't feel like I'm too far away from Java that I couldn't work in it immediately.

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