Chapter 1. Introduction to DSLs and Groovy
It has been over 10 years since my first contact with the Groovy language. The occasion was an introductory talk about Groovy at JavaOne in the Moscone Centre, San Francisco, by James Strachan, the creator of the Groovy language. Java itself was just 10 years old at that time and Groovy was one of the very first languages other than Java to run on the Java Virtual Machine (JVM).
Just this year, Java celebrated its twentieth birthday. In 2005, there were an estimated 3 million Java developers worldwide. Now, in 2015, Wikipedia estimates it as 11 million. The Groovy language has also taken off. There were an estimated 5 million downloads of Groovy in the last year alone. So what are the benefits of Groovy ...
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