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:350628 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
