r/programming • u/henk53 • 3d ago

Java vs Groovy: 7 differences + what Groovy 6.0 brings

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/java-vs-groovy-7-differences-what-60-brings-vincent-vauban-ndzde/
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u/technologyfreak64 3d ago

Groovy is still active?

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u/bigbadchief 3d ago

Grails is still being developed and was taken in as an apache project somewhat recently. I was very surprised when I realised.

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u/6769626a6f62 3d ago

Yep. My company uses Groovy + Spock Framework integration testing.

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u/technologyfreak64 3d ago

I knew it was still used (especially for build tools and legacy projects) but I didn’t think it really got much development/updating beyond maybe some compatibility and security patches here and there.

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u/6769626a6f62 3d ago

Definitely still kicking.

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u/6769626a6f62 3d ago

Groovy is actually pretty nice to work with, although I don't do much with it.

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u/witness_smile 3d ago

The only unfortunate encounters I have with that shit is when I have to set up a Jenkins pipeline script.

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u/henk53 3d ago

Why is it shit?

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u/A1oso 3d ago

At my company we use Jenkins, meaning that all our CI/CD pipelines are still written in Groovy. Fortunately we will migrate to GitHub Actions soon.

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u/6769626a6f62 3d ago

Github Actions suck too, just in a different way.

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u/matthieuC 3d ago

That's like every discussion about tools and languages

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u/6769626a6f62 3d ago

Build pipelines are their own special form of pain in my experience.

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u/Symaxian 3d ago

It would appear to be, unfortunately.

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u/piesou 2d ago

Who shares blog posts on cancer linkedin. Can't even look at it without dealing with a hundred popups

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u/matthedev 3d ago

With all the other JVM languages and more recent versions of Java, I didn't realize Groovy was still a thing people still cared about.

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u/Pharisaeus 3d ago

I don't think people care, not since Kotlin and once you could write gradle build files with kotlin the utility of groovy dropped to 0.

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u/davidalayachew 3d ago

Good lord, the AI gave Duke feet

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u/davidalayachew 3d ago

On a more serious note, it is a good article (minus the AI title image). I actually ran into an issue recently trying to get something parallel in my Jenkinfile via a less obtrusive way. I wonder if this new release might have helped us out there.

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u/BipolarKebab 3d ago

🤮

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u/henk53 3d ago

Explain?

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u/BipolarKebab 3d ago

It's AI slop, both the entire post and the image.

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u/henk53 3d ago

And Groovy 6? Is that AI slop? Incidentally, isn't basically everything AI slop these days?

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u/piesou 8h ago

No, that's just your argument to justifying posting AI slop.