By the way, you can vote up for the announcement on DZone! http://www.dzone.com/links/groovy_20_released_with_static_type_checking_and.html
And on Hacker News, as well as giving your feedback there too (as the audience there is often pro-other-languages-than-groovy): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4171013 Thanks for helping us spreading the word! Guillaume On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 12:39 PM, Guillaume Laforge <[email protected]>wrote: > *Dear all, > > The Groovy development team is very pleased to announce the release of > Groovy 2.0, the highly popular dynamic language for the Java platform. > > For the key highlights of this important milestone, Groovy 2.0 comes > packed with: > > - a static type checker to let the compiler tell you about the > correctness of your code, > - static compilation for the performance of the critical parts of your > application, > - modularity, splitting the Groovy JAR into smaller feature-oriented > JARs and letting you create your own extension modules, > - JDK 7 Project Coin syntax enhancements, so that Groovy is still as > friendly as possible with its Java cousin, > - and JDK 7 Invoke Dynamic integration to benefit from the support of > the JVM for dynamic languages. > > > To learn more about all those great key new features, please read the > Groovy 2.0 article on InfoQ <http://bit.ly/groovy2> that I’ve written, > detailing and explaining all those novelties. > > To download Groovy 2.0, go to the download > area<http://groovy.codehaus.org/Download?nc>of the Groovy website. > > For further information on all the JIRA issues fixed in this release and > the various betas and release candidates, you can have a look at the JIRA > changelog <http://bit.ly/groovy2jira>. > > We’d like to thank all our users, all the contributors and committers who > made this important release a reality, thanks to their feedback, their > support, and their contributions. > > Have a Groovy day! > > Guillaume Laforge, on the behalf of the Groovy team.* > > -- > Guillaume Laforge > Groovy Project Manager > SpringSource, a division of VMware > > Blog: http://glaforge.appspot.com/ > Social: @glaforge <http://twitter.com/glaforge> / > Google+<https://plus.google.com/u/0/114130972232398734985/posts> > > -- Guillaume Laforge Groovy Project Manager SpringSource, a division of VMware Blog: http://glaforge.appspot.com/ Social: @glaforge <http://twitter.com/glaforge> / Google+<https://plus.google.com/u/0/114130972232398734985/posts>
