From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2009-04-14T04:57:41+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby vs. Groovy: your perspective

On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 12:29 AM, Eleanor McHugh
<eleanor@games-with-brains.com> wrote:
>
> I followed Groovy development for a while (between 2004-2006) and liked what
> I saw, but ultimately gave up on developing for the JVM and lost interest.
> Were it to break out of that particular ghetto I think it could gain in
> popularity, although from what I recall it's similar enough to Ruby in many
> respects that it might be difficult to differentiate itself.

Clojure pushes the jvm as a strength [http://clojure.org/rationale].
It's certainly nice to have all those libraries for free and a
well-optimised vm, though I got a trifle disillusioned when I wrote an
app in it and discovered that yes, swing does suck. (Some day I'll
work up the energy to scrap the UI and rewrite it in QtJambi)

martin