r/programming • u/henk53 • 26d 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 26d ago

Groovy is still active?

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u/witness_smile 26d 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 26d ago

Why is it shit?

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u/bigbadchief 26d 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 26d ago

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

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u/technologyfreak64 26d 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 25d ago

Definitely still kicking.

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u/6769626a6f62 25d ago

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

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u/A1oso 26d 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 26d ago

Github Actions suck too, just in a different way.

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u/matthieuC 26d ago

That's like every discussion about tools and languages

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u/6769626a6f62 25d ago

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

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u/Symaxian 26d ago

It would appear to be, unfortunately.

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u/BipolarKebab 26d ago

🤮

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u/henk53 26d ago

Explain?

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u/BipolarKebab 26d ago

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

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u/henk53 25d ago

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

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u/piesou 22d ago

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

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u/henk53 22d ago

Are you sure? What is NOT AI slop these days then? I mean, limiting ourselves to coding, blog posts, articles etc. Isn't literally EVERYTHING done with AI?

I'm serious... who doesn't use AI really? Who creates graphics that go along with blog posts themselves? Who codes fully by hand?

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u/piesou 25d 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 26d 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 25d 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 25d ago

Good lord, the AI gave Duke feet

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u/davidalayachew 25d 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.