How Grails and Micronaut happened
An airhacks.fm conversation with Graeme Rocher (@graemerocher) about: Playing games with 286, playing digger, starting programming with quakec, programming custom explosions for rocket launcher with "shockman", working for a Apache Cocoon company, JavaScript and Java as second languages, programming learning management SYSTEMS with Java, publishing motivated by learning, programming over gaming, using JBoss on the backend, extracting content from Word with Apache POI and Groovy into XML, using XSLT to convert XML into HTML, data driven templates with XSLT, data-driven stylesheets is the way to go, starting with Visual Basic, the raise of Ruby on Rails, starting Groovy on Rails--Grails, groovy and the "method missing", "method missing" was heavily used in gorm, working on SpringData, SpringData and GORM are similar, joining Object Computing, staying small and be successful, with reflection you will use more memory at the runtime, micronaut was started by Graeme Rocher, micronaut is based on annotation processing, there is no "mobile native" development, on Android reflection is not used, better error messages was one of the design goals, micronaut comes with annotation-based introspector, micronaut generates a reflection-like API based on annotation processors, micronaut was announced in March 2018 and opensourced in May 2018, CDI was hard to implement without annotation, micronaut is similar to Spring, micronaut supports JSR-330 and is TCK-compliant, the Bean Validation module, micronaut supports micrometer, micronaut teams grows at Oracle, Visual Studio Code ships with GraalVM Extension Pack and Micronaut support, micronaut and Helidon are developed by multiple teams, Oracle actively supports micronaut, micronaut and GraalVM are great fit, micronaut is complex at compile time, but simple at runtime, helidon will be able to use the Micronaut Data, the JAX-RS with micronaut screencast, Object Computing, Google, Oracle are contributing to micronaut, Graeme Rocher on twitter: @graemerocher