Help with pitching Groovy and Grails

2017-02-21 Thread Raviteja Lokineni
Hi Devs, I was trying to pitch using Grails for one of our projects and the discussions always ended up with "using reflections in JVM is slow period". I am not knowledgeable to defend the internals of either Groovy or Grails, need some help on this topic. The only selling point that they identif

Re: Help with pitching Groovy and Grails

2017-02-21 Thread Wilson MacGyver
Please ask this on the regular groovy list. You will get more response. Both of the lists you post to are for development of groovy and grails itself a little preview, groovy is not slow. Hasn't been for a long time. It has one of the fastest json parser for example. @compileStatic often let groov

Re: Help with pitching Groovy and Grails

2017-02-21 Thread Raviteja Lokineni
+Groovy Users I have seen Groovy grow since 1.6.x and Grails since 1.3.x and I have used it successfully in many projects but the problem arises when convincing organizations which are a little hesitant to use newer techs. It could also be my inability to explain the internals correctly to people.