[ANN] Groovy 2.0 is released!

[Guillaume Laforge]

*Dear all,

The Groovy development team is very pleased to announce the release of
Groovy 2.0, the highly popular dynamic language for the Java platform.

For the key highlights of this important milestone, Groovy 2.0 comes packed
with:

- a static type checker to let the compiler tell you about the
correctness of your code,
- static compilation for the performance of the critical parts of your
application,
- modularity, splitting the Groovy JAR into smaller feature-oriented
JARs and letting you create your own extension modules,
- JDK 7 Project Coin syntax enhancements, so that Groovy is still as
friendly as possible with its Java cousin,
- and JDK 7 Invoke Dynamic integration to benefit from the support of
the JVM for dynamic languages.


To learn more about all those great key new features, please read the
Groovy 2.0 article on InfoQ <http://bit.ly/groovy2> that I’ve written,
detailing and explaining all those novelties.

To download Groovy 2.0, go to the download
area<http://groovy.codehaus.org/Download?nc>of the Groovy website.

For further information on all the JIRA issues fixed in this release and
the various betas and release candidates, you can have a look at the JIRA
changelog <http://bit.ly/groovy2jira>.

We’d like to thank all our users, all the contributors and committers who
made this important release a reality, thanks to their feedback, their
support, and their contributions.

Have a Groovy day!

Guillaume Laforge, on the behalf of the Groovy team.*

[Guillaume Laforge]

By the way, you can vote up for the announcement on DZone!
http://www.dzone.com/links/groovy_20_released_with_static_type_checking_and.html

And on Hacker News, as well as giving your feedback there too (as the
audience there is often pro-other-languages-than-groovy):
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4171013

Thanks for helping us spreading the word!

Guillaume

Post by Guillaume Laforge
*Dear all,
The Groovy development team is very pleased to announce the release of
Groovy 2.0, the highly popular dynamic language for the Java platform.
For the key highlights of this important milestone, Groovy 2.0 comes
- a static type checker to let the compiler tell you about the
correctness of your code,
- static compilation for the performance of the critical parts of your
application,
- modularity, splitting the Groovy JAR into smaller feature-oriented
JARs and letting you create your own extension modules,
- JDK 7 Project Coin syntax enhancements, so that Groovy is still as
friendly as possible with its Java cousin,
- and JDK 7 Invoke Dynamic integration to benefit from the support of
the JVM for dynamic languages.
To learn more about all those great key new features, please read the
Groovy 2.0 article on InfoQ <http://bit.ly/groovy2> that I’ve written,
detailing and explaining all those novelties.
To download Groovy 2.0, go to the download area<http://groovy.codehaus.org/Download?nc>of the Groovy website.
For further information on all the JIRA issues fixed in this release and
the various betas and release candidates, you can have a look at the JIRA
changelog <http://bit.ly/groovy2jira>.
We’d like to thank all our users, all the contributors and committers who
made this important release a reality, thanks to their feedback, their
support, and their contributions.
Have a Groovy day!
Guillaume Laforge, on the behalf of the Groovy team.*
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Guillaume Laforge
Groovy Project Manager
SpringSource, a division of VMware
Blog: http://glaforge.appspot.com/