[groovy] Difference between Groovy Binary and Source release?

i have been seeing the words binary and source release in many websites download sections.

What do they actually mean?

For example, I have seen this in Groovy download page.

My question is how they differ? Both tend to install Groovy, but what's the main difference?

This question is related to groovy installation executable

The answer is


The source release is the raw, uncompiled code. You could read it yourself. To use it, it must be compiled on your machine. Binary means the code was compiled into a machine language format that the computer can read, then execute. No human can understand the binary file unless its been dissected, or opened with some program that let's you read the executable as code.


Binary releases contain computer readable version of the application, meaning it is compiled. Source releases contain human readable version of the application, meaning it has to be compiled before it can be used.


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