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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?"

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  1. Bean Shell Script by Elias+Ross · · Score: 5, Informative

    From what I've seen, Groovy's a half-baked programming language and unfinished product. See this criticism for a start.

    If you want to do embedded scripting in Java, I suggest Bean Shell instead. As a library, Bean Shell is about 280K, Groovy is about 1.7M. And Bean Shell has been around for a lot longer.

    I'd like to see Sun add closures and better support for lists/maps in Java itself (e.g. a map function). I'm hoping that pressure from Ruby will make the language grow. C# already made them change their mind about Generics.

  2. 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.