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Moving over to the Apache Software Foundation has been good for the Groovy language, with downloads more than doubling inside of six months. Orphaned by Pivotal in March, the dynamic language for the ...
Using the Java programming language, developers have difficulty making Java applications scale linearly. Beyond the initial handful of processors, every time you add a new processor to your system, ...
Groovy 2.0 brings key static features to the language with static type checking and static compilation. In this article, we’re going to look into those new features in more detail.
JVM languages -- programming languages that run on the Java Virtual Machine (JVM), such as Kotlin, Clojure, Groovy and Scala -- are increasingly popular with software developers that seek Java-like ...
The latest major release of the Apache programming language for the Java Virtual Machine offers numerous simplifications and new functions. The Apache Software Foundation has presented version 5.0 of ...
The AntBuilder class provides a strong association between the Groovy programming language and the well-known and ubiquitous Ant build tool.
The one big move of note between Feb. 2021 and Feb. 2022 was with the Groovy programming language, an object-oriented language for Java. Over the course of the year, Groovy fell from 12th position ...
In the cutting-edge world of Silicon Valley, not only do developers have to learn the most popular programming languages, they also have to keep up with new ones. GitHub, which hosts open-source ...
Two weeks ago someone ran a poll on Hacker News asking what the readers’ favorite programming language was. Yesterday (April 5) I took a look back at the poll to see who came out on top. I wasn ...
Programming languages: Why this former favourite is sliding down the rankings A web development favourite slides in popularity, but it's still a hugely popular programming language.