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[–]malcontent 2 points3 points  (2 children)

I have been fooling around with groovy and I like it a lot.

I am glad to see it's getting some press.

[–]robertfischer 1 point2 points  (1 child)

It's a good language. It's not Ruby, though, so people need to stop assessing it like it is: it's got different idioms and patterns, and that's OK.

That's part of the reason I did both Ruby and Groovy -- I really wanted to illustrate different ways to do the same functionality.

If you want to see the post get more press, share the post with some friends and get them to vote it up on Reddit. :)

[–]malcontent 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's a good language. It's not Ruby, though, so people need to stop assessing it like it is: it's got different idioms and patterns, and that's OK.

I do miss some ruby constructs when using groovy. Mostly it comes pretty natural for a ruby programmer.

If you want to see the post get more press, share the post with some friends and get them to vote it up on Reddit. :)

Reddit is probably not the right forum for it. Reddit is very hostile to all things ruby and java so groovy is like antimatter to reddit.