Cedric Champeau
Core Groovy Committer
Cédric Champeau is a core Groovy committer. He joined SpringSource, a division of VMware, in order to help developing the language. Prior to that, he spent several years at Lingway, a software editor, where he used Groovy in multiple industrial contexts including DSLs for natural language processing, scripting or even workflows.
He his currently working on the implementation of static type checking and static compilation for Groovy 2.0.
Presentations
Groovy 2: type checking to the rescue!
Choosing a language is often a matter of taste. While a lot of people using Groovy come from a Java background, not every Java developer is willing to use Groovy because of its dynamic nature. Often, those people are disturbed by the lack of error reporting at compile time for code that would be obviously wrong in a static world. Unfortunately, by nature, Groovy cannot catch such errors because program semantics are ensured at runtime.
Well, this was before Groovy 2. In the latest version of the language, we introduced two annotations, @TypeChecked and @CompileStatic, which are precisely aimed at helping Java developers to seal the semantics of the language at compile time.
In this session, we will learn what type checking and static compilation mean and see that Groovy makes a giant step forward for those who want to totally replace Java with Groovy code."