[carsongross]

Thanks for the positive feedback, really appreciated.

I think what you'll find if you use Gosu, today, is that it has a lot of interesting features and is fun to play around with, but that you will run into trouble when you start trying to use it for larger projects. This is mainly because:

* It doesn't integrate cleanly with Maven in a mixed language project. It can be done, but it requires some hacks.

* There isn't a huge community around it outside of Guidewire, the classic bootstrapping problem.

* The IDE support is in IntelliJ only and can be a bit of a bear to set up initially.

We do have a (very alpha) web microframework that you can use to play around with the language:

  http://sparkgs.github.io/

And we are hoping to address all these issues over the coming year, but it's a long process to go from an internal language to a truly viable open source development platform if you don't have the resources Google has to throw at it.

[Kelet]

Do you happen to know if the preview release of Gosu for Java 8 also supports IDEA 13?

Edit: Just tried it, doesn't seem to work yet. Hope this is coming down the pipeline soon.

[lboasso]

Sorry, it does not, unfortunately. We are working on IDEA 13 support but for now our plug-in supports only IDEA 12.