From: Robert Dober <robert.dober@...>
Date: 2009-04-14T19:54:00+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby vs. Groovy: your perspective

On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 12:36 PM, Eleanor McHugh
<eleanor@games-with-brains.com> wrote:

>> 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.
>
> All platforms are ghettos by their very nature. In the case of Groovy, it's
> a language closely coupled to a particular platform - the JDK - which is out
> of the control of its creators and therefore breaking free from that ghetto
> could prove too difficult to be worth the investment. That's a pity for
> Groovy because it's a language that's fun to play with and that freed of the
> JDK constraint might not look out of place rubbing shoulders with Ruby and
> Python.

Hmm are you sure about this? Charles implemented Ruby on the JVM, a
priori that seemed much harder than to implement Groovy on the say
LLVM, or do I miss something here?
R.