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Re:The Groovy project is looking for a new home by thoman23 on Monday January 19, 2015 @07:20PM (#8914845)
Sorry to turn this into a framework war, but as someone who made the move from Groovy/Grails to Scala/Play Framework, I can't imagine ever going back. Or in other words, my answer to "A or B?" is "C".
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Re:The Groovy project is looking for a new home by derpshmerp on Monday January 19, 2015 @08:56PM (#8915083)
My experience with Scala Play was very different. Scala is an interminably difficult language fraught with pitfalls.

It's much easier to write unreadable Scala code than Groovy.

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Re:The Groovy project is looking for a new home by mcv on Tuesday January 20, 2015 @05:10AM (#8916222)
Agreed. Groovy is in my opinion absolutely the nicest and friendliest language to read or write. Scala has some really cool features that I would love to see in other languages, but it also has a tendency to become somewhat unreadable and is a lot harder to get into when you're new to it.
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Re:The Groovy project is looking for a new home by johnkpush on Tuesday January 20, 2015 @06:39AM (#8916474)
Groovy is gaining popularity among scientists and researchers because of it's ease of use and performance.
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Re:The Groovy project is looking for a new home by zmmmmm on Tuesday January 20, 2015 @06:01PM (#8920278)
Really? I've been using it but I feel pretty lonely. I ended up creating my own Groovy based version of R / pandas data frames because there is simply nothing out there. I'm curious in what ways you're seeing it used.
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