Smart money’s on JRuby
Title provided by cuningjames from programming.reddit.com comments on Martin Fowler’s GroovyOrJRuby article
Eh. Sun’s chosen JRuby, funds its development, and publishes relevant development tools; JRuby is much faster than Groovy and stands to become more so; JRuby has rails; JRuby is roughly equivalent to a rather popular language designed by someone not hamstrung by a desire for syntax that looks like Java’s …
Smart money’s on JRuby.
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From another point of view, Sun’s also adopted Groovy: it accepted the submission of a JSR standardizing the Java language through the JCP process. Sun lets the Groovy project use one of its awesome Sun servers for some high-load / high-concurrency testing. And several Sun engineers are currently working on providing great Groovy support in NetBeans. Furthermore, other vendors like IBM or Oracle are betting on Groovy — see Project Zero using Groovy, or Oracle’s OC4J container or Oracle ADF business components leveraging Groovy for its business rules. Frankly, smart money’s on Groovy too
I meant “standardizing the GROOVY language”, of course.