Groovy

Overview

This is our sixth episode! in it we cover:

• Interview with Guillaume Laforge lead Architect of the Groovy Language.

• In what we did section we cover:

Yardena set up Jenkins and explored Liquibase for schema management, she did research on Scala reflection as an alternative for AspectJ.

Ronen worked did lots of Puppet work and used librarian-puppet to manage its depdencies, FPM and Vagrant too, you can view the slide of the talk I gave in devopscon.

We mentioned Javascript WAT (JS humor), Ruby under a microscope intro video.

In our discussion about Clojure macros Ronen mentioned sleight for global macro application.

• In the news we covered:

LLVM gets loop vectorizer

Nashorn JVM javascript engine is out (replacing Rhino).

Clojure 1.5 rc 1 is out

Scala 2.10 is (almost) out