Alright. I can’t stand it any more. After hearing all the cool stuff people are doing with Dynamic Languages, I’ve just gotta jump on the bandwagon to see what all the fuss is about.
I’m going to have a play with Groovy first up, cause I’m not willing to surrender the head space of going totally non Java…. or the tons of libraries that I’ve got used to over the years. I think just getting into closures and builders will be enough of a sea change for this little black duck.
I am very keen to see what Groovy might offer in the web tier (Groovlets anyone?), since I’m doing less and less MVC as things get more and more Ajaxy with Spring and DWR. Also reckon that scripting engines are going to be a great tool for developing Domain Specific Languages (like the ability for users to write pluggable rules for our monitoring software). Very keen to explore more.
Had a quick squiz at Grails to get a feel for what’s achieveable in a hurry in the web space… and following the great Quickstart I had my first CRUD app up in a flash… Of course, then I became completely lost since the whole groovy story is quite a paradigm shift in itself.
Anyways, more news here when I’ve had a more solid play.