Recreate Twitter in 40 minutes

Today, surfing internet and trying to find some articles about ways to improve performance in web design and development, I encountered post about Groovy & Grails meet up on feralabs team’s blog.

Author describes in her page how Graeme Rocher, the founder of Grails, recreated Twitter in 40 minutes. It’s fantastic!

I personally believe that we need such a technology, which eliminates tons of configuration and waisting millions of long-monky-hours of creative developers. Of course, time will show will Groovy & Grails be such a technology or not, but at least it has significant improvements comparing to Struts era web application frameworks stack: conventions over configuration, powerfull plugin management and many others.

I am not trying to find silver bullet, but I do think that internet society needs something simple, flexible and efficient. Therefore the next challenge for Grails is easily integration with other hot technologies like Flex or GWT.