On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 6:44 PM, Cédric Champeau <cedric.champ...@gmail.com> wrote: > A strong -1 for both options. We already have 2 variants of Groovy today, > indy and non indy, and in practice *nobody uses the invokedynamic version* > because it's impractical to use. ... > Adding a new dimension, which is orthogonal to invokedynamic makes it even > more complicated.
How about dropping the indy version then, and instead offer a statically compiled one? > Second, IDEs need to know whether a file is statically compiled or not. The > `@CompileStatic` annotation makes it very clear, and the default is the > standard dynamic mode that has been in Groovy for more than 10 years. It has been suggested to use a different file extension for that purpose, though my idea would be .gravy.
