From: Charles Oliver Nutter <charles.nutter@...>
Date: 2009-04-15T04:00:33+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby vs. Groovy: your perspective

Robert Dober wrote:
> I am amazed that you say that, do you not think it would be easier to
> port Groovy to e.g. Ruby than Ruby to Java?
> Ok it would be lots and lots of work but surely less than the JRuby
> project. Well I have no idea if it will be worth it, but that is not
> my question.
> To be honest I am not worried about Groovy, but about Clojure, which I
> find most interesting.

I think the fact you're missing is that without the set of classes and 
libraries on the Java platform, Groovy would be a shell of a language. 
Moving Groovy off the JVM would mean you'd need to also port across all 
Java classes that it needs to run, as well as annotations, generics, and 
many other things that don't make much sense off-platform. I will 
concede it's probably possible to do, but totally infeasible.

- Charlie