From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@...>
Date: 2008-07-06T03:02:38+09:00
Subject: Re: from ruby/RoR to Java (framework unknown) :(

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Eleanor McHugh wrote:
> On 5 Jul 2008, at 13:16, S2 wrote:
>> An�bal 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.

And they probably didn't have performance requirements -- Groovy is slow.

-- 
M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
http://ruby-perspectives.blogspot.com/

"A mathematician is a machine for turning coffee into theorems." -- 
Alfréd Rényi via Paul Erdős

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