Comments on: Alternative languages for the Java VM

By: selven

selven — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 04:52:55 +0000

great :p this saves me time looking some languages supported on jvm.

By: avinash

avinash — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 03:19:14 +0000

Thanks Jordi.

Nice looks like a nice language And NetRexx brings back memories of my Amiga 500 where I used (a bit of) ARexx.

By: Jordi

Jordi — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 00:59:39 +0000

See alt.lang.jre for an introduction to six alternative languages for the JVM.

By: Clark Updike

Clark Updike — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 02:19:14 +0000

If anything, jython has had a rebirth with the recent 2.2 release. There is more activity on the development list lately than there has been in a long time. OTOH, groovy is interesting and is seeing good uptake by frameworks. However, the java-like syntax still seems a bit clunky to me compared to python–but that was a choice by the language designers to make it easier on java folks.

By: Eddy Young

Eddy Young — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 21:31:42 +0000

Jython seems to be dying a slow and painful death. I would place my bet on JRuby and Groovy.

–Eddy

By: Deana

Deana — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 21:44:33 +0000

which one will be worthy of being used on an enterprise level? JRuby and Jython have potential – ruby and python are already ‘known’ and used on an increasing scale.

By: Eddy Young

Eddy Young — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 13:34:48 +0000

Groovy sure looks interesting, especially when coupled with Grails.