Hi Groovy users,
the current IntelliJ IDEA (2019.3.3, built on February 11th 2020) still
does not support all Groovy features introduced with Groovy 2.5.4 in mid
2018 (http://groovy-lang.org/releasenotes/groovy-2.5.html). I have
created an umbrella issue for this back then
(https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-193168), but it seems to
never have been fleshed out / worked on.
To help remedy this, I am planning to create indiviudal issues, starting
with support for creating class instances without requiring the use of
the new keyword:
https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-234806.
Groovy is all about being as concise and elegant as possible, so it did
away with the needless Java semicolon at the end of lines, supports
string interpolation and multiline strings, etc. Creating class
instances / calling constructors without a new keyword is something that
has existed in Python and Kotlin forever, so it is high time IntelliJ
IDEA supported this Groovy feature.
Please vote for these issues as I report them G-)
Cheers,
mg
