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...

Today I highly recommend you read about the nice Groovy dedicated support for ElasticSearch! We also have a few interesting dot releases this week. And there’s the scoop that there’s a Ratpack book in the works! Don’t forget that the Call for Papers for GR8Conf Europe / US and Greach are still open, if you want to speak about your favorite Groovy technologies and experiments! Releases Groovy 2.4.0-beta-4 released Groovy 2. Read more...

Hot on the heels of our new beta for 2.4, here’s a bug fix release with Groovy 2.3.8. You can have a look at the JIRA release and you can download Groovy 2.3.8 right away! Thanks all for your contributions! Keep on groovy’ing!

This is with great pleasure that we are announcing the release of Groovy 2.4.0-beta-4. The highlights for this release are: a rewritten JsonBuilder for improved performance in JSON generation a @SelfType annotation for traits a new variant of GStringTemplateEngine capable of handling strings larger than 64k improved support for overloaded setters lots of bugfixes (some of which are backported in the upcoming 2.3.8 release) a new naming convention for closures The last point is important if your project somehow relies on the name of the closure classes as it is a potential breaking change. Read more...

My favorite read of the week is definitely Ken Kousen’s tale about Groovy’s Plain Old Groovy Object! Note the releases of the new Groovy Eclipse support and the Eclipse Maven batch compiler. Last but not least, for those of you heading to the Groovy & Grails eXchange conference in London, notice the program of the conference unfolding before your eyes! Let me also mention the Beaker notebook project, which offers Groovy support for data scientists who want to explore their data sets. Read more...

This week, coming back from the Devoxx conference in Belgium, I’ve gathered a bag of Groovy news for your consumption, for our usual Tuesday Groovy Weekly release! No particular big highlight today, but perhaps just a happy birthday to GrooScript, the Groovy to JavaScript transpiler, and also notice the opening of the Call for Paper for the GR8Conf conferences in Europe and in the United States. Releases Gradle 2.2.1-rc-1 released Articles Luke Daley explains Ratpack’s execution model in practice Custom collections in Groovy by Marcin Gryszko MrHaki’s Gradle Goodness: Check task dependencies with a dry run Dan Tanner wrote about the differences between Groovy’s collect and spread-dot operator Displaying all dependencies for all subprojects in a multi-project Gradle build String templates in Groovy by Mike Hostetler Craig Burke writes the first article of a series about the Angular. Read more...

Today is the celebration of the veteran day / remembrance day in various countries throughout the world. So I’ll start with a big thank you to our ancestors who fought for our freedom! This week is also a busy week as a part of the Groovy core team is moving to Antwerpen in Belgium to speak about Groovy at the Devoxx conference. My picks of the week, among the news below are: the release of Gradle 2. Read more...