Groovy 🎷 Cheat Sheet - 01 Say "Hello" from Groovy

1. scala

   1 50 14,377 9.7 Scala

   Scala 2 compiler and standard library. Scala 2 bugs at https://github.com/scala/bug; Scala 3 at https://github.com/scala/scala3

   

   Recently I had to revisit the "JVM languages universe" again. Yes, language(s), plural! Java isn't the only language that uses the JVM. I previously used Scala, which is a JVM language, to use Apache Spark for Data Engineering workloads, but this is for another post 😉.

2. InfluxDB

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3. rust

   2 2,818 103,100 10.0 Rust

   Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.

   

   But that said, - and again I might be a bit biased - Groovy is too slow for me! I compared it to Rust in this LinkedIn post and it was waaaaay slow. Keep in mind that subjectively comparing programming languages might be a tricky business. But at the end, it will be up to your use case/project to prefer a language over the other.

4. intellij-plugins

   3 181 2,184 9.9 Java

   Open-source plugins included in the distribution of IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate and other IDEs based on the IntelliJ Platform

   

   IntelliJ (look for the community edition) on the other hand offered great out-of-box Groovy support including IntelliSence, building, and running features. So, I sticked with it 😊

5. Apache Spark

   4 121 40,999 10.0 Scala

   Apache Spark - A unified analytics engine for large-scale data processing

   

   Recently I had to revisit the "JVM languages universe" again. Yes, language(s), plural! Java isn't the only language that uses the JVM. I previously used Scala, which is a JVM language, to use Apache Spark for Data Engineering workloads, but this is for another post 😉.

6. SDKMan

   5 167 6,318 6.8 Gherkin

   The SDKMAN! Command Line Interface

   

   Alternatively, you can use sdkman. A great tool to install your Software Development Kit. The downside is that it only works on *nix systems. So for Widnows users, you will have to use WSL or Cygwin as the official page suggests. It is really simple to use sdkman. after a successful installation, just type those commands into your *nix shell:

7. groovy

   6 24 5,292 9.8 Java

   Apache Groovy: A powerful multi-faceted programming language for the JVM platform

   

   This time, I visited Groovy. Given my biased first impression about Java and the JVM, I wasn't too exited! But I couldn't have been more wrong! 😁

8. Visual Studio Code

   7 3,122 170,491 10.0 TypeScript

   Visual Studio Code

   

   I personally prefer VS Code. But for Groovy, it didn't offer the right extensions.

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