The Groovy team is happy to announce the release of Groovy 2.4.0! The big highlight of this release is the Android support, which allows developers to write Android applications fully using Groovy, with much less boilerplate code than raw Java. The team also focused on various improvements in terms of performance, smaller bytecode generation, or memory consumption. Other interesting aspects worth noticing in this release are: traits can use the @SelfType annotation with static type checking enabled to restrict to what classes traits can be applied GDK methods improvements some refinements to existing AST transformations further Groovysh improvements as well. Read more...

This week’s edition of Groovy Weekly is a bit peculiar, as the big news of the week is Pivotal’s announcement that it will stop funding the Groovy and Grails projects. As a result those popular Open Source projects are now seeking a new home! You can read Guillaume Laforge’s and Graeme Rocher’s announcements to hear a bit more about the story. And if your company is interested in further funding the projects, please don’t hesitate to get in touch! Read more...

Pivotal just announced it’s decision to stop sponsoring and funding the development of the popular Groovy and Grails Open Source projects. As a result, both Groovy and Grails are looking for new sponsors willing to further help develop the projects full steam! The Groovy programming language has been around for a while for more than 11 years. During that time, it has nicely evolved from a side hobby project to the very mature and successful alternative language it is today, used by Fortune 500 companies throughout the world, in various projects and contexts. Read more...

The Groovy development team released the second release candidate of Groovy 2.4, please be sure to check your applications with this version and report any issue you may be finding, so that we can all ensure 2.4 is a rock-solid release. Note the publication of MrHaki’s Gradle Goodness Notebook! If you’re using Gradle, this is worth the investment to have that resource handy for mastering your build automation. Releases Groovy 2. Read more...

First of all, let me wish you a very Groovy year! May 2015 fulfill all its promises, keep you healthy, bring joy and hapiness around! And of course, may it be filled with tons of bits of Groovy code! Following up my plea for more stars on Github, we went from below 600 stars to beyond 1000! But we don’t need to stop there, so let’s keep starring and spreading the word! Read more...

Here’s the end of a pretty Groovy year coming, giving room for an even groovier one! I hope you all enjoyed the holidays, and that you’re ready to pour in some more drops of Groovy into your software mixes! Don’t forget to continue starring the Groovy project on Github, if you haven’t done so, so we try to reach 1000 in the new year! What are going to be your new year’s resolutions? Read more...

Hot on the heels of our 2.3.9 update, the Groovy team is happy to release the first release candidate of Groovy 2.4 as another Xmas present! This release candidate is our upcoming new major version of Groovy, including: official support for the Android development platform: you can now develop full Android applications in Groovy, dramatically reducing boilerplate code while keeping performance and memory consumption at the same level as Java apps performance optimizations: lots of improvements have been implemented in both statically compiled Groovy code and dynamic code. Read more...

Lots among us are celebrating Christmas this week, and Groovy Weekly is happy to wish you all a Merry Christmas! And there’s also an anniversary, as it’s been one year that Groovy Weekly was launched, with the first edition on December 24th (hence my excuse to publish this column on Wednesday 24th instead of on Tuesday as usual)! For Christmas, the Groovy team decided to release a first release candidate for Groovy 2. Read more...

This has been a super busy week, in particular with the 7th edition of the Groovy Grails eXchange conference in London. You’ll find lots of slides and videos already published online, so you won’t miss a beat! For instance don’t miss this talk from Shuichisan how Groovy is used by Japan’s Rakuten mobile backend as a service platform at scale! A special highlight in the articles section to Cédric’s article on 10 things your static language can’t do. Read more...

Almost a year since I started the Groovy Weekly newsletter. And perhaps for the first anniversary, in a handful of weeks, we’ll have reached 2000 news items shared with you all in this column! This week is a London-ian one, as lots of the Groovy ecosystem inhabitants are migrating to the UK to celebrate the Groovy Grails eXchange conference. I’m looking forward to seeing some of you this week there. It also means that next week, you’ll likely see many links to slides and videos of the conference. Read more...