Java腳本語言Groovy 1.8.0 正式版發布

今天，Groovy開發團隊自豪地宣布Groovy1.8.0最終版本發布了！Groovy是一種基于JVM的敏捷開發語言，它結合了Python、Ruby和Smalltalk的許多強大的特性。

繼4個測試版和4個候選版發布后，經過許多卓越的工作和努力Groovy1.8.0最終版本終于問世了！令人激動的是該版本有大量的新功能和增強點，特別是以下幾項：

• the new Domain-Specific Language authoring capabilities for more readability and expressivity of your business rules,
• the runtime performance improvements,
• the bundling of the GPars parallel and concurrency library,
• the built-in JSON support,
• the new compile-time meta-programming features (several new useful AST transformations),
• the new functional programming aspects of closures,
• and more helpers and library additions

發行說明：
http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GROOVY/Groovy+1.8+release+notes