I guess the thing I find most interesting about Groovy is that Groovy
scripts can be compiled to Java bytecode that is saved in a .class file.
This can be used seamlessly by Java classes and it can seamlessly use Java
classes. I wouldn’t claim that the performance of Java is great, but I
believe it is generally faster than so called scripting languages. Groovy
makes it possible to achieve performance similar to Java and code in a much
more comfortable syntax that resembles Ruby.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Christian Szegedy [mailto:szegedy@t-online.de]
Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 6:50 PM
To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org
Subject: Re: Proposal for programming language of the yearVolkmann, Mark wrote:
… for those looking for alanguage that borrows heavily from Ruby and interacts well
with Java, I
suggest looking at Groovy (http://groovy.codehaus.org).I did not find Groovy particularly interesting, since it
really seems to
be yet another Ruby/Python-clone, written in/for Java.
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