From: Eleanor McHugh <eleanor@...>
Date: 2008-07-05T21:47:05+09:00
Subject: Re: from ruby/RoR to Java (framework unknown) :(

On 5 Jul 2008, at 13:16, S2 wrote:
> Aníbal Rojas wrote:
>
>> - Grails: http://grails.org/
>
> I am being naive maybe, but I don't get the point of Grails. It's a
> different programming language and it tries to mimic rails. So the  
> only
> thing it has of Java it's the JVM. So they had to completely rewrite  
> rails
> in Groovy. Why not use the real thing at this point? Or jruby?

Because they like Groovy :)
It's a good language if the JVM is your only target, and it's still  
close enough to Java that there's not too much pain working with both.


Ellie

Eleanor McHugh
Games With Brains
http://slides.games-with-brains.net
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