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Re:Rise and fall of JVM languages by fithisux on Monday August 21, 2017 @12:58PM (#15065901)
The killer feature of Groovy is Spock tests. It really shines there.
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Re:Rise and fall of JVM languages by sorokod on Monday August 21, 2017 @02:27PM (#15066527)
sincerest form of flattery?

http://spekframework.org

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Re:Rise and fall of JVM languages by vorg on Monday August 21, 2017 @02:47PM (#15066709)
Kotlin-based Spek uses standard lambdas for defining specs, whereas Spock digs into the Apache Groovy parser to change the meaning of labels in the syntax, as well as uses operator overloading. One's elegantly functional, the other's a cheap hack.
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