Re: quick startup time: also consider GroovyServ[1]. It pre-dates the
gradle daemon, but is a similar concept some folks might be familiar with.
Re: Bundling a JVM: it is certainly doable but we'd likely do that in the
broader community outside ASF unless someone else solves the GPL licensing
Native image support neither the reflection nor java.lang.invoke/invokedynamic.
Are you suggesting to implement a new backend based on an interpreter, while
it's possible, it's a very big project ?
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> De: "MG"
> À: "dev"
> Envoyé: Mercredi 5 Août 2020 17:04:19
> Objet: Groovy as a
I think it is a great idea, thanks MG!
I've been doing Perl/Bash for decades, however more and more I am
employing Groovy to do my sysadmin chores. I learned to live with an
extra second or two to bring up a JVM. However, having this dependency
gone would make things easier and faster for
In my opinion the reason why Bash-Script/Perl/Python are the predominant
Linux script languages is, because all or most of them come preinstalled
on every Linux distribution, and because they run standalone with
minimal startup time and memory fotprint.
One of the great things about Grooy is,