Groovy 2.0 RC1 releases JVM dynamic scripting language

The Groovy 2.0 RC-1 has been released, with detailed improvement records available in JIRA changelog.

The biggest improvement of this version is Modularization. It is fully built using Gradle, And the jar package can be independent of the core package and several dependent module packages.

Groovy is a JVM-based Agile development language that combines many of the powerful features of Python, Ruby, and Smalltalk.

Groovy has the following features:

• Is an agile Dynamic Language Based on Java virtual machine.
• Built on the powerful Java language and added many features learned from languages such as Python, Ruby, and Smalltalk.
• Provides Java developers with the most popular modern programming language features, and the learning cost is almost zero ).
• Supports DSLDomain Specific Languages domain definition Languages) and other concise syntaxes, making your code easy to read and maintain.
• Goovy processes native types, object-oriented objects, and an Ant DSL, making creating Shell Scripts very simple.
• When developing Web, GUI, database, or console programs, the efficiency of developers is greatly improved by reducing framework code.
• Supports unit tests and simulated objects) to simplify testing.
• Seamless integration of all existing Java objects and class libraries.
• Directly compiled into Java bytecode, so that Groovy Can be used wherever Java is used.

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