A Groovy Resurgence? It Looks Like It.
ST. LOUIS, Dec. 14 — Remember Groovy, the Ruby like language designed for the JVM and only for the JVM? (I first blogged about it 1042 days ago, and then some. Oh boy that was a long time ago.)
According to Jeff Brown, a principal software engineer at OCI, Groovy is about to have a resurgence in the next few months.
Brown made the remark at the monthly meeting of the St. Louis Java Users Group, which meets on the second Thursday of each month at 6:30pm in the auditorium of One City Place. He gave a demo-rich presentation on the Groovy programming language version 1.0 RC1 to an engaged audience.
Among the signs given by Brown, who is a core team member of the Grails open-source web applications framework project now, as evidence of the Groovy resurgency are:
- The imminent release of Groovy 1.0 (in weeks, not months)
- The publication of Groovy in Action by Manning
- The publication of The Definitive Guide for Grails by Apress
- The recent unveiling of AboutGroovy.com
From where I stand, it does seem that groovy is in a resurgence, which is part of the scripting/dynamic language resurgence that is happening on the JVM.
Get the slides of the talk from here.