Article:		Groovy, Java's New Scripting Language
Subject:		groovy ? no thanks I'd rather go for javascript (rhino) in Seppia
Date:		2005-01-09 10:40:27
From:		lorenzop
Groovy ? Yes nice... but what was said in the introduction is so true: why another language ? what we really need instead is an environment to use an existing one. How about javascript (elegant and concise) ? have you ever of Seppia ? http://www.seppia.org ? Seppia is a simple framework to build and deploy any java application. It gains from the sinergy of java and javascript and a minimum set of clear rules to organize their interaction.

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• Javascript Is Not Enough
  2005-01-09 12:01:59  Ian F. Darwin | [View]
  
  
  What I also said in the introduction was
  

  ... other developers have been hoping for a scripting language with the power of Perl, Python, or Ruby but without having to re-learn everything from the ground up.

  
  

  
  Whatever you say about JavaScript, it does not have the power of Perl, Python or Ruby.
  

  
  Seppia may be a nice solution for some applications.
  Choice is good, and I'm choosing Groovy which does have the greater expressive power while remaining largely upwards-compatible with Java itself.