Best-Practices

Peter Ledbrook recently wrote a blog post about the future of Grails, which sparked some deep thoughts about where Grails is heading as a platform.

As a long-term Grails user with interests in programming in the large, functional languages, DDD, CQRS, and high-volume HTTP, I’ve been contemplating what the future holds for this framework.

The Changing Landscape

The industry has changed significantly since Grails was born. Grails emerged from the Spring/MVC consensus - essentially designed to be “Java/Spring web development done right.” It was, and continues to be, a better Spring MVC paired with a better Java (Groovy). This approach has been beneficial to the industry.