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Last time I tried Groovy I found that the speed of it is really the pain of using it. It was considerably slower than plain Java. I'd recommend Scala even if y

Last time I tried Groovy I found that the speed of it is really the pain of using it. It was considerably slower than plain Java. I'd recommend Scala even if you skip all the functional parts of it (Clojure's too un-java to speak as an alternative.)

rbanffy 16y ago
You kidding? Clojure is nice precisely because it's an un-Java as it can possibly be.
- cycojesus 16y ago
  Exactly. If one want a Java-but-less-painful, Clojure ain't it.
  - rbanffy 16y ago
    "Java-but-less-painful" makes every bit as much sense as "gently gouging out an eye" ;-)
jhawk28 16y ago
Groovy++ is working on improving the performance: http://code.google.com/p/groovypptest/ http://code.google.com/p/groovypptest/