Considering our limited human resources and time constraints, it is hard to give definitive and accurate estimates of the milestones we are going to release.
Groovy 2.1
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Groovy 2.1 is the latest stable version of Groovy.
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- Groovy 2.1 beta: end of December 2012
- Groovy 2.1 RC: early January 2013
- Groovy 2.1 final: end of January 2013
Groovy 2.2 (Q3 2013)
Feature set for consideration
- Class-loading-less compilation
- using ASM when needed, to avoid loading/initializing classes needed during the compilation
- Stub-less joint compilation
- to avoid various problems with the stubs and the various compilation phases
- Static traits or mixins
- but dependent on stub-less joint compilation issues
Groovy 3.0 (
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Q1 2014)
Feature set for consideration
- New Meta-Object Protocol dedicated to fully leverage "invoke dynamic"
- Rewrite the Groovy grammar from scratch with Antlr 4 (moved to Groovy 4)
- Retrofitting Groovy closures to accommodate JDK 8 upcoming closures for interoperability
Groovy 4.0 (
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Q1 2015)
Feature set
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for consideration
- No concrete plans at the moment
Other topics we could consider for later Groovy
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