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Groovy is really quite a remarkable language. The static compilation and type checking features are quite stunning, and if they really work as advertised will
by zmmmmm 14y ago
Groovy is really quite a remarkable language.
The static compilation and type checking features are quite stunning, and if they really work as advertised will truly put to rest the last remnants of my interest in Scala.
I would love to see some more direct support for doing a pure functional style of programming, but what is there is close enough and so much easier to grok than Scala, to be honest.
- vorg 14y agoClojure is really quite a remarkable language. The macros and concurrency features are quite stunning, and if they really work as advertised will truly put to rest the last remnants of my interest in Groovy. I would love to see some more direct support for doing a pure functional style of programming, but what is there is close enough and so much easier to grok than Haskell, to be honest.
- zmmmmm 14y agoI really don't disagree with anything you've said :-) However a big point of difference is that Groovy's syntax, being 90% compatible with Java, is orders of magnitude more accessible than Clojure to the vast majority of developers.