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Your Thoughts on the Groovy Scripting Language?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the coffee-with-sugar-and-cream dept.

lelitsch asks: "Does anyone have first hand experience with Groovy? I am just coming off implementing a Plone-based intranet CMS and got hooked on scripting languages and Python all over again. Since most of my projects in the near future are going to be in Java or have large Java components, I was wondering if it's time to trade Jython--which seems to be falling further behind the Python release cycle--for something else. Groovy sounds like a fun thing to look at, but it seems a bit new and thin. Also, what are other languages (JRuby and Rhino, for example) you have used to script in Java?"

3 of 128 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Stop the groovy naming by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I pronoune it D-rulez for that very reason. Then I throw up some gang signs.

  2. Re:People who like general-purpose languages by Slack3r78 · · Score: 2, Funny

    I can't think of any reason people would choose C or Java over Ruby.

    Even other scripting languages like Perl, Lua, or Python would clearly be foolish choices as well.

    Seriously, Ruby's a great, well thought-out language, but if you listened to the hype you'd think that there couldn't possibly be anything better for any task at all. The fanboyism that's grown up around the language is starting to become really irritating.

  3. Indent by Vexorian · · Score: 3, Funny

    At least it uses brackets instead of depending on indentation .

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