Call me Apache Groovy

Cédric Champeau (@CedricChampeau)

Groovy & Grails exchange

Year 2003

james strachan

Highlights

  • Creating a dynamic language for the JVM

  • Inspired by Ruby

Year 2004

glaforge

Highlights

  • Builders (XML by John Wilson)

  • Antlr grammar (Jeremy Rayner)

Year 2005

blackdrag

Highlights

  • James leaves the project

  • Grails work started

Year 2006

paulk

Highlights

  • Guillaume takes lead

  • Windows installer (Joachim Baumann)

  • Grails 0.1

  • 50% less commits as in 2006

Year 2007

Groovy 1.0 released!

Year 2007

danno ferrin

Year 2007

alex tkachman

Highlights

  • Groovy 1.5

    • On par with Java (generics, annotations, enums…​)

    • Elvis operator

    • Joint compiler

  • First Groovy and Grails eXchange

  • Groovy in Action, first edition!

Year 2008

g2one

Year 2008

graeme rocher

Highlights

  • Grails 1.0 released

  • G2One acquired by SpringSource

Year 2009

I can honestly say if someone had shown me the Programming Scala book by Martin Odersky, Lex Spoon & Bill Venners back in 2003 I’d probably have never created Groovy.
— James Strachan

Highlights

  • Groovy 1.6

    • performance improvements

    • AST xforms

  • VMware acquires SpringSource

Year 2010

peter niederwieser

Highlights

  • Groovy 1.7

    • Anonymous inner classes

    • Power Asserts

    • Grape

    • Customizing the Truth

Year 2011

cedric champeau

Highlights

  • Groovy 1.8

    • Performance

    • Command chain expressions

    • Closures as annotations values (GContracts, …​)

  • Grails 2.0

Year 2012

pascal

Highlights

  • Groovy 2.0

    • @CompileStatic

    • modularization

    • alternate runtime

  • Gradle 1.0

Year 2013

52 unique contributors!

Highlights

  • Groovy 2.1

    • Full invokedynamic support

    • type checking extensions

    • @DelegatesTo

    • meta-annotations

  • Groovy 2.2

    • implicit closure coercion

    • improved AST xforms (@Memoized, …​)

  • GPars 1.0

  • VMware spins off Pivotal

Year 2014

grooid

66 unique contributors!

Highlights

  • Groovy 2.3

    • Runs on JDK 8

    • Traits

    • Markup Template Engine

  • Gradle 2.0

Year 2015

asf logo

Highlights

  • Pivotal stops sponsoring

  • Groovy 2.4

    • Android support

    • Smaller bytecode

  • Grails 3.0

  • OCI takes over Grails

  • Groovy in Action, 2d edition

PMC

  • Guillaume Laforge (PMC Chair)

  • Cédric Champeau

  • Paul King

  • Guillaume Laforge

  • Pascal Schumacher

  • Jochen Theodorou

  • Andrew Bayer

  • Jim Jagielski

  • Roman Shaposhnik

  • Konstantin Boudnik

Committers

  • Andrés Almiray

  • Dierk König

  • Russel Winder

  • Keegan Witt

  • Shil Sinha

  • Graeme Rocher

Community over code

11M

Groovy guys

GPars

russel winder

GPars

dierk koenig

GPars

vaclav

Griffon

andres almiray

Gradle

hans dockter

Gradle

adam murdoch

Year 2016

Highlights

  • Groovy 2.5

    • Macros

  • Groovy 3.0 development

    • Jigsaw?

    • Binary compatibility?

    • Require JDK8+?

Cheers

cheers

Thanks to all our contributors!

Credits

http://melix.github.io/blog/2015/02/who-is-groovy.html

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