From: James Britt Date: 2009-04-14T16:34:45+09:00 Subject: Re: Ruby vs. Groovy: your perspective 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 :) In some ways MRI is more of a "ghetto" in that if you ever end up using a native-code library you may find it hard to run you code on multiple platforms, whereas if you use JRuby with Java libs you have far more portability. As it stands, it's a fair bet that Ruby + Java gives you more libraries than Ruby + C. That's not to claim there are no downsides to running on the JVM, just that the Java platform seems to have been tagged with a very outdated image, and people are doing themselves and others a real disservice to so blithely dismiss it. -- James Britt www.jamesbritt.com - Playing with Better Toys www.ruby-doc.org - Ruby Help & Documentation www.rubystuff.com - The Ruby Store for Ruby Stuff