It’s Wednesday, February 16, 2021, with your hosts Ken Kousen (@kenkousen) in Marborough, CT and Baruch Sadogursky (@jbaruch) in Franklin, TN.
As always, here is the home page for the Groovy Podcast.
-
Groovy 3.0.7 and 2.5.14 released (Dec 6): downloads page. Note Groovy 4.0.0 is now alpha-2 (and available on SDKMAN!, of course). Check Release notes for Groovy 4.0 if you want to see what’s coming.
-
Groovy Windows installers. Tweet by Keegan Witt with links to the Windows installers.
-
Grails 4.0.7: tag page for release
-
Grails 5.0.0.M1: tag page for release
-
Probably a good time to talk about the service end for JCenter and Bintray, used so heavily by Grails plugins. Let’s grill Baruch on that!
-
-
Gradle 6.8.2 released Feb 5, 2021: release notes
-
Gradle 7.0 milestone: release notes. Gradle 7.0 will have support for Apple Silicon.
-
Micronaut 2.3.2 released Jan 2021: tag page for release notes
-
GMavenPlus 1.11.1: release page at GitHub
-
Spock 2.0-M4: release notes, released 2020-11-01.
-
CodeNarc 2.0.0: release notes released Oct 2020, version 2.1.0 on the way.
-
gradle-nexus-publish-plugin 1.0.0: project home page released 2020-02-15 - a brand new comprehensive plugin for releasing to Maven Central
-
Grails Foundation announced, a "not-for-profit company established to support and continue to advance the open source Grails(r) Framework".
-
Gradle Fellowship Program announced. First fellows are Schalk Cronjé, James Justinic, Björn Kautler, and Lance Semmens. See fellows page for details about them.
-
YouTube playlist for ApacheCon @Home 2020 contains all the Groovy presentations from ApacheCon.
-
Tutorial: Spock Part 1 - Getting Started is the first part of a five-part (!) tutorial on using Spock testing inside IntelliJ IDEA
-
Practice coding in Groovy by writing a game Blog post by Chris Hermansen
-
TIOBE Index for February 2021. Groovy jumpts to #12. Java drops to #2 behind C (huh?). Take the info for what it’s worth.
-
Happy Apache Anniversary to @ApacheGroovy as a top-level project at Apache.
-
DataMelt is "free software for numeric computation, mathematics, statistics, symbolic calculations, data analysis and data visualization." Supports many scripting languages, including Groovy.
-
#GINQ shown in Groovy shell, tweet by Daniel Sun, who is hard at work adding GINQ support to Groovy 4.0.0. See this gist for the code.
-
Modernizing the Groovy build, presentation by Cédric Champeau on Oct 20, 2020.
-
Groovy Roadmap, the excellent presentation by Paul King that includes Groovy 3 highlights and the Groovy 4 roadmap.
-
The Problem with Gradle, long blog post by Bruce Eckel.
-
The problem with Gradle: really? response by Cedric Champeau.
-
GR8Conf Friday Bar "Meet online to cheer, chat, and have fun with folks from the Groovy community"
-
No Fluff Just Stuff for the website hosting
-
The Groovy Calamari for tons of news as well!
-
Twitter: @groovypodcast
-
Home page: Groovy podcast home page
-
YouTube: Subscribe is you haven’t already :-)
-
Baruch Sadogursky twitter: @jbaruch, w: http://www.jfrog.com
-
Ken Kousen twitter: @kenkousen, w: http://www.kousenit.com, newsletter: Tales from the jar side
-
sometimes Jenn Strater twitter: @codeJENNerator, w: https://www.jennstrater.com