That is awesome. If the Java 8 syntax is supported, does that mean Groovy will support lambdas? One thing that saddened me about using Java 8 from Groovy is that you have the overhead of closure classes/meta class and the “dynamic” conversion/proxy into the Java functional interfaces, while the same code written in Java uses the lambda functionality which appears to return a singleton instance of a VM-generated class with presumably much less overhead.
Jason From: Guillaume Laforge [mailto:glafo...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, March 24, 2017 4:37 PM To: users@groovy.apache.org Subject: Testing the Java 8 / Parrot parser online! Hi all, I've deployed a version of the venerable Groovy Web Console that uses the Parrot parser! And we'd love if you could try it out and report your findings. You don't have to install anything, just go online, and run some scripts or classes, using Java 8 syntax constructs and APIs, and see how well it works. I've blogged about it here: http://glaforge.appspot.com/article/testing-java-8-snippets-on-the-new-app-engine-java-8-runtime And you can try it here online directly, without installing anything: https://cafe-huitre.appspot.com/ It's built with Java 8, and runs on the upcoming version of Google App Engine's Java runtime running on an OpenJDK 8. It's using the "indy" jar, thus with the invoke dynamic support automatically. I'll deploy that version at some point to the usual web console URL, once we have an official release of the Parrot parser. What we'd like is you to go and try it out :-) Please spend a moment to try different things, and if you find any problem, please report them back here. Thanks for your help! Guillaume -- Guillaume Laforge Apache Groovy committer & PMC Vice-President Developer Advocate @ Google Cloud Platform Blog: http://glaforge.appspot.com/ Social: @glaforge<http://twitter.com/glaforge> / Google+<https://plus.google.com/u/0/114130972232398734985/posts> This email message and any attachments are for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message and any attachments.
