From: Eleanor McHugh <eleanor@...>
Date: 2009-04-14T07:21:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby vs. Groovy: your perspective

On 13 Apr 2009, at 22:14, Charles Oliver Nutter wrote:
> 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 :)

Well I'll concede that the JVM does have a few things going for it,  
but I never was entirely comfortable with having my code tightly  
coupled to it. The Groovy guys have a different outlook and good luck  
to them for that - if we all thought alike we'd never get anywhere lol


Ellie

Eleanor McHugh
Games With Brains
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