From: Charles Oliver Nutter <charles.nutter@...>
Date: 2009-04-14T06:14:25+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby vs. Groovy: your perspective

Eleanor McHugh 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.

I don't know if I'd consider the JVM a ghetto :) At any rate, I think 
there's practically no chance of Groovy ever living anywhere but the 
JVM, since they're tightly intertwined with both Java the platform and 
Java the languages.

- Charlie