From: Diego.Virasoro@...
Date: 2009-04-13T23:20:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby vs. Groovy: your perspective

> I am not really familiar with Groovy, but I'm somewhat surprised you
> didn't mention JRuby here.

You are right... and I think I've not explained myself very well. I
was interested to hear people's opinion about Groovy to get an idea if
I may want to invest some time in learning it or not.

To this end, I currently have two main concerns:
1- A language I enjoy using. Ruby is such a language so far (apart
from the speed). On the other hand is Groovy? Are the two really on
feature parity? What are their advantages over each other? I could
find very little recent stuff on Groovy, and as you put it << I'm not
sure why I'd use something "like Ruby" if I could just use Ruby >>. So
what is the feeling of the Rubyist that have already looked closely at
Groovy?

2- A language that will be around for a (relatively) long time, and
with a strong community support. I mean, I know Ruby per se would not
disappear if people stopped using it, but still, with little support
there are less libraries, and the technological world is a moving
target, so a language with no development would slowly become less and
less useful.

So I am sorry I confused everybody by mixing the two points. I was
trying to address both points in the opening post, but I didn't
distinguished the two questions very well. I hope things are more
clear now. :)

Diego