From: Dylan Evans <dylan.star@...>
Date: 2009-04-13T21:49:38+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby vs. Groovy: your perspective

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Use whatever language makes you happy (i do). There is plenty of room among
programmers to accommodate new languages and they tend to bounce idea off
each other which keeps development from getting stale, languages don't just
die because something new came out, for example you can still find
contingents of pascal programmers around. One issue with groovy is (at the
moment) shackled to JVM which has both it's pros and cons. Overall groovy
looks like an interesting language but for the moment i don't have a
compelling reason to use it.

On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 9:35 PM, Diego Virasoro <Diego.Virasoro@gmail.com>wrote:

> Hello,
> I realise this is a very hot topic... and people have strong feelings
> about either language. I am not trying to trolling.
>
> Still I've heard a bit about Groovy and it kind of seems like the Java
> answer to Ruby (even the names are kind of similar). So I was
> wondering if that kind of "first citizen" status will eventually make
> it take over Ruby as a dynamic language (assuming that indeed that the
> Groovy language offers everything Ruby does).
>
> I checked online, but websites are either very old, or too "official".
> So I wanted to ask my fellow Ruby programmers, who probably share
> similar preferences to mine.
>
> Note: I am not sending this to the Groovy list or the Java list. I
> don't program in either, I program in Ruby, and what I am looking for
> is not an "official" intro to Groovy, just some opinions from Ruby
> users. Many things are about personal preference, not checking boxes
> on a list. (for that there's wikipedia) :)
>
> So thoughts? Does Groovy (the language) have everything to offer that
> Ruby does? And the fact that it was designed to be used on the JVM
> from they one gives it an advantage (I know I can keep use Ruby, but a
> strong community means more libraries out there, more books, and in
> general more help).
>
> Fire away. :)
>
> Diego Virasoro
>
>


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