From: Robert Dober <robert.dober@...>
Date: 2009-04-15T04:19:10+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby vs. Groovy: your perspective

On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 9:00 PM, Charles Oliver Nutter
<charles.nutter@sun.com> wrote:
> 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,
that I was aware of
>as well as annotations, generics, and many
> other things that don't make much sense off-platform.
that I missed
> I will concede it's
Thanx for explaining.
R.