A big week for the Gradle team as they’ve just announced the final release of Gradle 2.0! It’s of course a very important milestone for the project, and it’s nice to see that the migration to Groovy 2.3 as a baseline. There are also some updates to Grails, Ratpack, and also the launch of the Spring IO platform that you might be interested in. You’ll see also a list of job postings for Netflix, where Groovy is deployed at a very large scale and who are always seeking Groovy talents. Read more...

This week, I’d like to highlight how you can contribute to the Groovy project! The Groovy core team is a very small team, compared to the huge team a company like Oracle puts behind Java and the JVM, or Microsoft behind its languages and the .Net platform. So all contributions, in any form, count, and are important to the success and evolution of the Groovy language. If you want to contribute to the code of Groovy, Cédric Champeau recorded a screencast showing how you can set up IntelliJ IDEA to be able to work on the Groovy codebase. Read more...

Oracle is publishing the agenda of the upcoming JavaOne 2014 conference. And I’d like to highlight the Groovy presentations I’ve noticed that you might be attending in following if you are in San Francisco: Groovy in the Light of Java 8 [CON5839] With Java 8 out the door, Java developers can at last benefit from the long-awaited lambdas to taste the newly found functional flavor of the language. Streams are there to work more easily and efficiently with heaps of data. Read more...

So what’s new this week? We can highlight the first beta of Groovy 2.4 with the Android support, so users can start having a go at writing Android applications in Groovy! As well as bug fixes releases for Grails 2.3.x and 2.4.x. Let’s also mention the launch of the Gradle plugin portal, announced last week at the Gradle Summit. And you’ll find also lots of presentations from the conference. Releases Groovy 2. Read more...

The Groovy team is very happy to announce the joint releases of Groovy 2.3.3 and Groovy 2.4-beta-1. Groovy 2.3.3 is a bug fix release, particularly covering the recent issues discovered around anonymous inner classes. Please upgrade to 2.3.3 if you’ve been facing such issues. Groovy 2.4.0-beta-1 comes pretty early, as we would like to come back to releasing milestones on a more regular pace, compared with how late we released the first beta of Groovy 2. Read more...

GR8Conf Europe is over, but there’s a lot to learn from the conference, with all the interesting conference sessions that took place there in Copenhagen. The themes for this week will be around GR8Conf, of course, but also about Groovy on Android, again the Swift language, and also the first impressive demo of Grails 3.0! Right after the conference also took place the annual Groovy DevCon meetup, gathering core members of the Groovy team, Grails team, and members of the Groovy ecosystem. Read more...

Direct live from GR8Conf Europe! Several speakers already uploaded their presentation slides, as you shall see in the “presentations” sections. And the videos will be available later after the conference. At the same time in San Francisco, Apple is running its WWDC conference and announced the creation of a new language, Swift, that looks a lot like Groovy as several Groovy users have already noticed on Twitter. That’s nice to see Groovy also influences other languages! Read more...

During Apple’s WWDC conference was announced a new programming language, called Swift, targeted at developing on iOS devices (and likely Mac OS X in the future as well). When looking through the slides from the keynote, online documentation, and iTunes ebook, an acquainted Groovy eye would immediately notice the inspiration the Swift designers took from Groovy. In one of the slides covering Swift, Groovy was even mentioned as one of the languages clearly making developers much more productive, although I disagree with the placement of Groovy in terms of performance as Groovy should clearly be leading the pack of the bottom right hand quadrant. Read more...

The Groovy team is pleased to announce the release of Groovy 2.3.2, a bug fix release for our 2.3 main branch. If you have already moved to Groovy 2.3, we strongly recommend you to upgrade to 2.3.2 rapidly, as our two prior 2.3 releases were using a buggy version of ASM which was generating wrong bytecode for inner classes. You can check this issue for more details: https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GROOVY-6808 Since any code compiled with Groovy 2. Read more...

The big news of this edition is the release of Grails 2.4, with standalone GORM and GSP, with more static compilation that even understands dynamic aspects of Grails, with a new asset pipeline, with GORM sub-queries, and with a new Maven plugin. The other big news is that next week is the GR8Conf Europe week! So you’ll certainly see lots of nice and interesting presentations being put online next week. And I hope I’ll also be able to publish this weekly news brief in time too! Read more...