Groovy (52)

1 Name: #!/usr/bin/anonymous : 2008-10-09 11:29 ID:vp7zABqE This thread was merged from the former /code/ board. You can view the archive here.

We all know that Java isn't the most elegant language, but for many other reasons it still is an attractive platform. Arises the question: Is there a nice language for Java Virtual Machine?

Yes, I'm aware of JRuby and Jython, but the whole idea of mixing two languages just seems a little silly to me. Nevertheless, I would like to hear about your experience with these two languages.

Then there is Groovy. It looks kinda nice, but I can't really understand what exactly it improves over Java. OK, so dynamic typing, closures and for some reason they rewrote few libraries.. that's it? Has anyone seriously used this? Your thoughts?

Why is that there are more and superficially better languages for .NET? Am I misunderstanding something, isn't JVM equal to CLI? I'm trying to decide between Java with Groovy and Mono with Boo.

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