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JavaOne 2007: What Bloggers Thought about Groovy

Jeremy Rayner June 9th, 2007

Groovy core developer Jeremy Rayner rounded up bloggers’ reactions to Groovy, after JavaOne 2007:

Positive: Bernard Ng; Sausheong; Ben Teese [1], [2]; Charles Ditzel [1], [2]; Demian; Michael Kovacs; Andres Almiray [1], [2]; Peter Pilgrim; Chirag Mehta; Matt Stine [1], [2], [3]; Jason [1], [2]; Maryland Pok Guy; Lucas Jellema [1], [2]; Michael Yuan; Antoni Batchelli

Neutral: Keyur Shah; Tony; Cameron Purdy; Frank Coyle; Igor Minar; Brendon Humphreys

Negative: Ola Bini [1], [2]; Cay Horstmann [1], [2], [3]; Hani Suleiman

Friends: Geertjan Wielenga (Netbeans plugin); Graeme Rocher [1], [2], [3], [4] (Grails Lead); Jason Rudolph [1] [2] [3]; Ian Roughley (InfoQ)

JavaFx: Cedric Beust + comments; Danno Ferrin; Ron Hitchens; Steve Giovannetti

It looks like Groovy managed to enthuse some people about Groovy and we even made it to the best seller list (#5)

Jeremy sent special thanks to Guillaume Laforge, Dierk König, Rod Cope, Vladimir Vivien Graeme Rocher and anyone else who talked about Groovy at JavaOne, either on stage, or in the corridors.

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6-minute Elevator Pitch for Groovy (Video)

Jeremy Rayner, Video June 9th, 2007

Groovy developer Jeremy Rayner’s 6-minute elevator pitch for the Groovy language. Recorded at Google offices in London on 24 May 2007, as part of the Open Source Code Jam 3. Presented and Edited by Jeremy Rayner.

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