The best description of Groovy I have heard came from Todd Sharp - 'I't like cfscript all growed up'
On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 11:16 AM, Brian Kotek <brian...@gmail.com> wrote: > > There's still actually quite a bit of activity around Groovy (2.0 is > imminent with many enhancements), but it is overshadowed by Grails, which > is extremely active. Since the two are tightly linked (you use Groovy to > build Grails apps), looking at *only* Groovy activity may be misleading. > Probably similar to looking at straight Ruby vs. looking at Rails, which is > what virtually everyone who uses Ruby is actually working with. > > It could be that I'm extra-happy with Groovy because I've also done a lot > of Java work, so almost everything I'm familiar with still applies, but > it's just a lot easier to work with. The syntax is almost identical where I > want or need it to be, but I can drop a lot of the rigid BS that Java can > force on me. I can paste straight Java code into a Groovy class and it will > compile. Which I assume (so watch out) would be difficult with other JVM > languages that have different syntax. Maybe I'll have to confirm that heh. > > > > > On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 12:43 AM, Mark Mandel <mark.man...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> I quite like Groovy as well - although unfortunately it doesn't look like >> it really exploded like I think many of us thought it would do. >> >> While it has a following, from my research, it seems to have kinda >> stagnated in it's community growth, in favour of some other JVM based >> languages. >> >> I'm looking at Ruby a lot these days, as it has similar constructs and meta >> programming models, but a much larger community - and if you run it on >> JRuby, it has access to both the Java libraries as well as Ruby ones, which >> is very powerful. >> >> Mark >> >> >> >> On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 12:54 PM, Brian Kotek <brian...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > Groovy is by far the best all-around programming *language* I have ever >> run >> > into. It doesn't have all the built-in extras that CF does, but CF is >> > actually a platform, not just a language. But in my opinion (and I may >> get >> > flak for saying it), in terms of language elegance and power, Groovy >> blows >> > everything else out of the water. >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> E: mark.man...@gmail.com >> T: http://www.twitter.com/neurotic >> W: www.compoundtheory.com >> >> 2 Devs from Down Under Podcast >> http://www.2ddu.com/ >> >> >> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:350630 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
