From: Eleanor McHugh <eleanor@...>
Date: 2008-07-06T09:30:17+09:00
Subject: Re: from ruby/RoR to Java (framework unknown) :(

On 5 Jul 2008, at 19:02, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
> Eleanor McHugh wrote:
>> 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.

Indeed. Although its not that slow compared to other dynamic JVM  
languages of similar vintage. JRuby runs rings around it though ;)


Ellie

Eleanor McHugh
Games With Brains
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