Feb 5, 2008, Grails 1.0 was released. :birthday:
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jeffscottbrown
02/05/2025, 2:25 PMFeb 5, 2008, Grails 1.0 was released. 🎂
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jeffscottbrown
02/05/2025, 2:30 PMI have personally had a tremendous experience with this community around the technology. At Apache Community Over Code a couple of years ago I heard leadership from Apache commenting on the name change for the event and part of what the name references is that Apache values community over code, code is the platform to gather around to build community. I am appreciative of many experiences and milestones that I got to experience, many along side @graeme. Those collaborations and milestones are all incredibly meaningful to me. Thank you.
Keep making friends in this community and keep creating.
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Ross Niemi
02/05/2025, 2:32 PMBy October of that year, I wrote and deployed a Grails app to production… and it’s been running ever since. Mind you, with all of the Grails updates over the years, the app is much like the Ship of Theseus - Thanks to all the maintainers and community members over the years!
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jeffscottbrown
02/05/2025, 2:52 PMAnd here you are 17 years later, still engaged with a technology that was created at a time when folks kept asking "Do we really need another one of those?" because everyone and their siblings were trying to create another JVM web framework that was not expected to thrive. In my view, Grails’ impact was increased by taking a sensible approach to real problems, and the framework evolved as needs and wants of developers evolved.
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Ross Niemi
02/05/2025, 3:04 PMIt was also during a time that web developers were looking for productivity accelerators like Ruby on Rails and it would have been impossible to introduce Rails into a non-startup organization.
In my case, I have always been a development team of one and I would not have been able to accomplish as much as I did without something like Grails.
There were also long stretches of time that I wouldn’t be working on the application, but it was always joy to (quickly) hop back into the code and create new features/enhancements whenever my customer reached out to me.
Ross Niemi
02/05/2025, 3:12 PM(err.. development team of one for this specific project)
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James Fredley
02/05/2025, 6:16 PMConvention over Configuration and DRY principals are what pulled me in and all these years later, Grails still fulfills these principals better than of the remaining Java ecosystem web frameworks.
An except from "The Definitive Guide to Grails 2"
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jeffscottbrown
02/05/2025, 6:25 PMA masterpiece indeed. 😉
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John Moore
02/06/2025, 3:58 PMI think I started working with it in 2008, maybe 2009.
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