Hello all,
I'm starting to do some research on Groovy, and I was wondering what you all knew.

-Where are some good tutorials and text for getting my feet wet?

-What are some key features besides reflections?

Thanks!

dude groovy is just a complicated dump

i mean i think its complicated just to be complicated

leave java altogether and learn c/c++ or python

i swear its not worth the memory in your head

Look here, its just a start:
http://groovy.codehaus.org/

I hate Groovy just for having a name like Groovy.

I really like Groovy, I got into it a while ago but there aren't many tutorials around for it so I just got a book Groovy in Action. It was an amazing help but if that's a little too much I also got one of the book Groovy Recipes: Greasing the Wheels of Java. It was a great introduction to the language and made my whole life easier with Groovy.

And it's a nice language to script and program in, it's expressive, making Swing apps are very easy and short and it has some of the best file i/o methods I've ever seen already built-in with its AntBuilder.

Edit:
And both "it's complicated" and "its not worth the memory in your head" aren't valid arguments at all. Ever language is of some use, whether it be to raise the difficulty level you can handle or a different view on how to program. If a language is to hard for you then leave it, but don't deter other people from what could be a valuable learning experience.

This post has been edited by abgorn: 3 Jul, 2009 - 01:07 PM