I’ve published the slides of my “Groovy in 2014 and beyond” presentation at GR8Conf Europe. Slides embedded below: As well as video:

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...

Releases keep coming, with a second RC for Grails 2.4, with Gaelyk and Griffon upgrading to Groovy 2.3, and already a bug-fix release of Groovy with version 2.3.1! Don’t forget it’s the last week to register to the GR8Conf Europe conference! Releases Second release candidate for Grails 2.4 Guillaume Laforge announces a Groovy 2.3.1 bug-fix release Gaelyk 2.1.2 released, built atop Groovy 2.3.0 Kunal Dabir released version 2.1.2 of the Gaelyk template Andrés Almiray is upgrading Griffon 2. Read more...

The Groovy development team is happy to announce the bug fix release of Groovy 2.3.1. Lots of bugs have been reported and fixed. Some of the highlights among those fixes: the classloader related problems with @Grab several generics handling issues a problem preventing Groovy from loading its modules on IBM mainframes a problem preventing Groovy from being loaded as an OSGi module in certain OSGi containers You can read the JIRA release notes, and download the latest distribution. Read more...

I had the pleasure of coming back to the JAX conference after a number of years of absence, and I presented about what makes Groovy groovy, and functional Groovy, showing the functional aspects of the language. Here’s the latest update of my What makes Groovy groovy presentation: And the Functional Groovy presentation as well:

Now that Groovy 2.3.0 is out, it’s going to be Grails turn! Graeme announced a release candidate for Grails 2.4, so take your chance to test drive it to make Grails 2.4 an awesome release! Last but not least, you still have two weeks to buy your tickets for the GR8Conf Europe 2014! Releases Graeme Rocher announces the release of Grails 2.4 RC1 with Groovy 2.3 and Spring Framework 4.0.4 Version 0. Read more...

Tthe big news of the week is the release of Groovy 2.3.0! With traits, support for running on JDK 8, new AST transformations, lightning fast JSON support, and more! Be sure to read the Groovy 2.3.0 release notes to get all the juicy details! And vote up the DZone link to make a bit of buzz on the small interview of Guillaume Laforge about the release. Also, Hubert Klein Ikking was on a blogging spree, as he wrote many new items in the Groovy Goodness series with snippets showing the new features in action. Read more...