From: Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@...>
Date: 2009-04-13T21:59:51+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby vs. Groovy: your perspective

On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 7:35 AM, 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 am not really familiar with Groovy, but I'm somewhat surprised you
didn't mention JRuby here.
It runs on the JVM, lets you access the wealth of the Java libraries,
and is fully compatible with  Ruby 1.8.6.
It is also targeting Ruby 1.9 features over time.

So I'm not sure why I'd use something "like Ruby" if I could just use Ruby.

-greg