Comments on: Copasetic Groovy Eclipse plug-in fix http://thediscoblog.com/2006/02/18/copasetic-groovy-eclipse-plug-in-fix/ Can you dig it man? Sat, 22 Nov 2008 03:03:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Andy http://thediscoblog.com/2006/02/18/copasetic-groovy-eclipse-plug-in-fix/#comment-20 Andy Thu, 23 Feb 2006 18:52:13 +0000 http://thediscoblog.com/?p=12#comment-20 <a href="http://groovy.codehaus.org/">Groovy</a> is still young- it got a lot of press too early it seems. <a href="http://www.jython.org/">Jython</a>, <a href="http://www.python.org/">Python</a>, and <a href="http://www.ruby-lang.org/">Ruby</a> have been around for years and have had plenty of time to mature. Jython is a fun language to develop in. It’s Python based, so the learning curve is slightly steeper than that of Groovy. Check out the <a href="http://pydev.sourceforge.net/">PyDev Eclipse plug-in</a>- this is how the Groovy one should act someday. I suspect you’ll see more tool development for Groovy once the language itself matures. Groovy is still young- it got a lot of press too early it seems. Jython, Python, and Ruby have been around for years and have had plenty of time to mature.

Jython is a fun language to develop in. It’s Python based, so the learning curve is slightly steeper than that of Groovy. Check out the PyDev Eclipse plug-in- this is how the Groovy one should act someday. I suspect you’ll see more tool development for Groovy once the language itself matures.

]]> By: Kyle Dyer http://thediscoblog.com/2006/02/18/copasetic-groovy-eclipse-plug-in-fix/#comment-19 Kyle Dyer Thu, 23 Feb 2006 17:48:51 +0000 http://thediscoblog.com/?p=12#comment-19 I'm down man. Thanks for the post. I tried to work through this a few weeks back but didn't pick up on missing import in the plugin.xml. However... Isn't Groovy a waste of time? I've read a few scathing blog posts about the progress of Groovy development. Is the fact that it is a JSR enough to expect that the language will survive and be useful in the long term? I'd love to get into using "dynamic languages" for testing. But I'm unsure which one to use? Do you have any opinions about Jython as a language for rapid test development? I’m down man. Thanks for the post. I tried to work through this a few weeks back but didn’t pick up on missing import in the plugin.xml.

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Isn’t Groovy a waste of time? I’ve read a few scathing blog posts about the progress of Groovy development. Is the fact that it is a JSR enough to expect that the language will survive and be useful in the long term? I’d love to get into using “dynamic languages” for testing. But I’m unsure which one to use? Do you have any opinions about Jython as a language for rapid test development?

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