By submitting these links to Hacker News you're assisting one of the Groovy despots to take over personal control of the Codehaus implementation of Groovy, which is why I'm suspicious. This despot has a long history of doing this, and it's only because of my intervention the 3 present developers are even mentioned on Groovy's wikipedia page, instead of the project person putting his own name there 3 times
Mmm... interesting. Honestly, I use Groovy heavily, and am a huge fan of the language (and Grails) but I don't spend a lot of time interacting with the rest of the "Groovy Community", so I wasn't aware of any of that. I don't know if I'm even subscribed to the main Groovy and/or Grails mailing lists or not. I do lurk in ##Groovy on Freenode a bit, but there doesn't seem to be much discussion there.
Anyway, I have "no dog in this fight" so to speak, in that I'm not backing any particular "camp" or anything in any sort of "fight for the soul of Groovy". I'm just a guy who uses it and think's it's a bit of a shame that the buzz around Groovy has kinda died down, in favor of Scala, Clojure, etc.
I did use Groovy a lot from around 2005 to 2011 but moved on since then to Clojure for day to day scripting. I'm still trying to create a better implementation of Groovy but one snag of course is the lack of a spec that doesn't change all the time.
I haven't used Grails at all. If your primary use of Groovy is with Grails then your experience of both the language and the community will be quite different.
Yep, most, if not all, of my Groovy coding is for Grails based apps. I'm not really using it for lightweight scripting, nor for dedicated backend-service work.
And while I'm a fan of Groovy, I am still very interested in learning both Clojure and Scala, but I'm too busy with the day-to-day stuff to spend a lot of time on either of those. :-(
Mmm... interesting. Honestly, I use Groovy heavily, and am a huge fan of the language (and Grails) but I don't spend a lot of time interacting with the rest of the "Groovy Community", so I wasn't aware of any of that. I don't know if I'm even subscribed to the main Groovy and/or Grails mailing lists or not. I do lurk in ##Groovy on Freenode a bit, but there doesn't seem to be much discussion there.
Anyway, I have "no dog in this fight" so to speak, in that I'm not backing any particular "camp" or anything in any sort of "fight for the soul of Groovy". I'm just a guy who uses it and think's it's a bit of a shame that the buzz around Groovy has kinda died down, in favor of Scala, Clojure, etc.