It sounds a good plan! My suggestion is to improve as much as possible the support for native compilation, see for example this thread <https://twitter.com/wololock/status/1130374973800030214>. There's a lot of excitement in the JVM world at this regard and losing the train can be problematic to keep groovy on the edge.
Regarding lang enhancements, I would love in Groovy 4 to have raw strings <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GROOVY-8564> and see solved the problem with the override of equals method for collection <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GROOVY-9003> objects. Best, Paolo On Fri, May 24, 2019 at 4:27 PM Milles, Eric (TR Tech, Content & Ops) < eric.mil...@thomsonreuters.com> wrote: > My quick list for Groovy 4: > > - invoke dynamic by default > - incorporate subprojects/parser-antlr4 into root project and drop > antlr2 parser > - pattern matching / switch expressions (if not already part of Groovy > 3) > - improved instanceof flow typing: > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GROOVY-8687, > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GROOVY-8412, > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GROOVY-8411 > - some annotations copied from property to getters/setters: > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GROOVY-8897 > - unqualified enum constants in switch: > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GROOVY-8444 > - libraries are modules > - modulepath support > > > > > What do people think about changing our maven coordinates with Groovy 4 > from org.codehaus.groovy to org.apache.groovy? > > Sounds good in theory. Would you also repackage all "org.codehaus.*" > sources? Would you publish redirects in maven central so users could still > get conflict management for other deps that pull in groovy? > > <project > > xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"; > > xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"; > > xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 > > http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd";> > > > <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion> > > > <groupId>org.codehaus.groovy</groupId> > > <artifactId>groovy</artifactId> > > <version>4.0.0</version> > > > <distributionManagement> > > <relocation> > > <groupId>org.apache.groovy</groupId> > > <artifactId>groovy</artifactId> > > <version>4.0.0</version> > > </relocation> > > </distributionManagement> > > </project> > > > Eric M. > >
