This week, an InfoWorld article lists Groovy among the 9 cutting-edge programming language worth learning today, although it reduces Groovy to a mere Java dynamic scripting language. Are you happy with the investment you made into learning Groovy a while ago? We also have some nice releases, like the monthly Ratpack release, or the 1.0 versions of GroovyServ (for starting up your Groovy scripts at light speed), and Gaiden for making nice documentation with Markdown. Read more...

Isn’t it a mythical number? The 42nd edition of Groovy Weekly! Will we get the answer to life the universe and everything? At least, we have a nice list of releases, this week, in particular with Grails 2.4.4, Geb 0.10 and the first milestone of Reactor 2.0! And if there’s one thing I’d like to highlight in addition, that would be MrHaki’s release of his new book, the Spock Notebook, with all those nice recipes about our preferred testing framework. Read more...

Along with some valuable releases like the first release candidate of Gradle 2.2, there are interesting links on the topic of the Groovy Android story, as well as new glimpse on AST macros and AST pattern matching coming up. Worth a look! In terms of events, the Greach conference in Spain has opened its Call for Paper, and the GR8Conf Europe crew reminds us that all the great content from the last edition is freely available on their YouTube channel. Read more...

No big highlight this week, but still plenty to learn from! We have some minor releases, interesting articles on Spock, on how to leverage traits with Geb, some thoughts on reactive programming, new demos and tutorials for GrooScript. And we can wish a happy birthday to the GR8 Ladies! Releases Spring Tool Suite & Groovy Grails Tool Suite 3.6.2 released GrooScript 0.6.1 released GridGain 0.6.2 with better support of themes that use plain CSS and better handling of large files Spring Boot 1. Read more...

After some trouble getting to San Francisco because of strikes, transportation issues, burnt control tower, and more… I managed to land to JavaOne! I missed my own first talk and I was glad and grateful that Cédric could present it for me. At JavaOne, the Groovy project received the award from ZeroTurnaround / RebelLabs, for the “Best Tech - Geek Choice Award” : Youpi mon projet a reçu un prix de l’innovation ! Read more...

I was very honored to be able to speak about Groovy at DroidCon Paris 2014 a couple of weeks ago. It was really great to spend time with the Android community and learn more about their needs, pain points, and more. The video of the presentation is available below: And you can find the slides here too:

Back from JavaOne, where the Groovy project received its “Best Tech - Geek Choice Awards” from ZeroTurnaround, and where it win the Script Bowl competion this year again! Releases Griffon 2.0.0 final released! Ratpack 0.9.9 is out moving to Java 8 as a base requirement Alain Stalder releases Grengine, another approach to running and embedding Groovy RxGroovy 1.0.0-RC-1 was released with a new artifact ID Articles Marcin Zajączkowski comes back with Part 2 of what’s coming up in Spock 1. Read more...

Here’s a short column this week, a bit in advance, as I’m flying to JavaOne tomorrow to spread the Groovy truth! Releases Cédric Champeau announced the release of Groovy 2.3.7 Spring Boot 1.1.7 released Articles MrHaki’s Gradle Goodness: running Groovy scripts as application The reason the internet was invented or cat pictures for the win, by Ken Kousen, sprinkled with bits of Groovy JSON and Swing code Exporting Grails’ i18n messages into Javascript Andrés Almiray’s Gradle Glam on features that would benefit the Gradle community Jorge Martin on the inception and the Groovy Swiss Knife library for Android and the problems encountered with Android Studio’s Groovy support Presentations Guillaume Laforge presented on Groovy on Android at DroidCon Paris 2014 Tweets Robert Fletcher noticed IntelliJ IDEA’s clever capability of properly renaming closures it parameter Java’s Duke is looking pretty Groovy at JavaOne! Read more...

SpringOne2GX 2014 in Dallas is over. And next week starts JavaOne. It’s conference season! Speaking of which… the fine GR8Conf US crew released many more presentations this week! There’s a lot of content to go through! Releases GrooScript 0.6 is out, on the road to 1.0, and Jorge Franco is looking for your feedback Gradle Android plugin 0.13 works with Gradle 2.1 JBake 2.3.2 with Asciidoctor 1.5 News Incremental Java compilation landed in Gradle 2. Read more...

The SpringOne2GX 2014 conference is over, but you can see below more tweets and presentations from the second part of the conference, and the videos will be available later on on InfoQ. Apart from the excitement around Grails 3, Spring Boot, Groovy, and more, I’d like to highlight the very interesting feedback from Scott Hickey who comes back on 6 years of production usage of Groovy at Mutual of Omaha, saying “Groovy is a phenomenal language for businnes applications”, and that there’s nothing “better” on the JVM! Read more...