JVM dynamic scripting language (Groovy)

Groovy is an agile dynamic language for the Java Virtual Machine that combines many powerful features of Python, Ruby, and Smalltalk. It is a mature object-oriented programming language that can be used for both object-oriented programming and as a pure scripting language. You don't have to write too much code to use this language, and it has closures and other features found in dynamic languages.

Groovy is an alternative language to the JVM (replacement means that you can use Groovy to perform Java programming on the Java platform). The usage is basically the same as using Java code. The language is particularly suitable for use with Spring's dynamic language support. It is designed with Java integration in mind, which makes the interoperability between Groovy and Java code easy. (Note: This does not mean that Groovy replaces Java, but that Groovy and Java are a good combination of programming.)

Groovy’s main features include:

It is an agile dynamic language based on Java virtual machine. Built on the powerful Java language and adding many features learned from languages ​​​​such as Python, Ruby and Smalltalk. It provides Java developers with the most popular modern programming language features, and the learning cost is very low (almost zero).

Supports DSL (Domain Specific Languages) and other concise syntax to make your code easy to read and maintain.

Goovy has handling of native types, object orientation and an Ant DSL, making creating shell scripts very simple. Greatly improves developer efficiency by reducing framework code when developing Web, GUI, database or console programs.

Supports unit testing and mocking (objects) to simplify testing. Seamlessly integrates all existing Java objects and class libraries. Compiles directly into Java bytecode, so you can use Groovy anywhere Java is used.

Groovy breaks into the top 20 programming languages for the first time:

Groovy beat out other well-known JVM languages this month, such as Scala (36-bit), JavaFX Script (41st), and Clojure (#76). Let’s wait and see if it can maintain its top 20 spot in the coming months.

Top 20 list ranking list

About Groovy:

Groovy is an object-oriented language compiled into bytecode. Its syntactic style is very similar to Java, but not as confusing as Java. Java programmers can quickly become proficient in using Groovy; in fact, the Groovy compiler can accept a completely pure Java syntax format, so that programmers do not need to learn any new syntax when learning Groovy. It should be noted that an important feature of using Groovy is the use of type inference, which allows the compiler to infer the type of variables when the programmer does not explicitly state it. At the same time, Groovy also provides an advanced architecture to solve string processing, XML serialization and deserialization, unit testing, etc. - all these benefits can save programmers a lot of time.