Google App Engine Adds Java Support, Groovy Meta-Programming

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday April 8, 2009 @05:14AM from the engines-firing-on-more-cylinders dept.

Zarf writes "Yesterday Google announced that the Google App Engine now supports Java development, and fast on the heels of the Java announcement is an announcement for Groovy support! Groovy is a dynamic programming language for the JVM that is a near super-set of Java. Much Java syntax is valid Groovy syntax, however, Groovy adds powerful meta-programming features, and the new functionality will bring these meta-programming features to App Engine development. Groovy got special attention from the SpringSource Groovy team and the Google App Engine Java team, and it was this collaboration that helped create the changes that were the big secret in the recent Groovy release of 1.6.1."

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Groovy? Why not java? by WankersRevenge · 2009-04-08 06:39 · Score: 4, Interesting

I'm not sure I fully understand the reason for Groovy? I've read a lot of the documentation, but it doesn't answer the fundamental question ... as a java developer, why would I learn this language when I can just use java? Is it just for the new language features? Can someone illuminate?