Hi Caleb,
1. a few years back I dabbled a bit in Minecraft development myself, so
I could teach my son about programming (we were working on a new
sport/arena-type-game mode, which alas never saw the light of day
due to time constraints, even though we got pretty far (that the
Minecra
Hi Caleb,
literally what OC wrote.
Groovy has many hats, and the one you seem to know (and it seems dread)
is it being used to create a non-static DSL for Gradle.
The other two hats are Groovy being used as a script language, and - and
this is the one you should have a closer look at - being
Oh, and the reason it adds so few features is (well *one* to be in scope
for a summer programming gig, but *two:*) so that it's not overwhelming to
people. Again: a small handful of features that help a *bit*, but don't
completely outshine Java's own features, and don't require constantly
checking
IDEs will still interpret stuff incorrectly at times.*
On Mon, Mar 25, 2024 at 4:17 PM Caleb Brandt
wrote:
> Thank you all so much for your insight! And I'm not being facetious here;
> you guys keep blasting away the points that don't hold water, so I think
> I've finally nailed down *why* I fe
Thank you all so much for your insight! And I'm not being facetious here;
you guys keep blasting away the points that don't hold water, so I think
I've finally nailed down *why* I feel this project is so necessary.
Because you're absolutely right: Groovy already *does* do much of what I
want. In
Caleb,
> On 24. 3. 2024, at 16:57, Caleb Brandt wrote:
>> I know you made Groovy, but if you're anything like me, you love Java.
just for one, although I haven't co-operated on the Groovy creation (am just a
very satisfied user), I hate Java very bitterly.
The language design is simply terribl
