Re:Groovy Now Runs on Android
by vorg on Sunday June 08, 2014 @04:03AM
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You might be familiar with last year's Groovy Conundrum in Dr Dobb's magazine...
"For all its strengths, however, Groovy suffered from several important drawbacks: the first and most painful was performance. It was slow — even for a dynamic language. The second limitation was that Groovy had no real design philosophy, save for a wide-ranging pragmatism. Any new feature that brightened enough eyes in the community got thrown in. So the language grew organically in ways that were hard to predict, rather than having a clear philosophy and a long-term trajectory. Finally, there was the problem that I believe most cramped its acceptance: limited documentation. There was one "Bible" and a pair of tutorials that rehashed the basics."
"For all its strengths, however, Groovy suffered from several important drawbacks: the first and most painful was performance. It was slow — even for a dynamic language. The second limitation was that Groovy had no real design philosophy, save for a wide-ranging pragmatism. Any new feature that brightened enough eyes in the community got thrown in. So the language grew organically in ways that were hard to predict, rather than having a clear philosophy and a long-term trajectory. Finally, there was the problem that I believe most cramped its acceptance: limited documentation. There was one "Bible" and a pair of tutorials that rehashed the basics."
http://www.drdobbs.com/jvm/the-groovy-conundrum/240147731