Syntactic Sugar in Groovy and Ruby
2008/05/27Over on the RailsEnvy blog (the guys who made the “Rails vs. X commercials” last year), there’s an article that highlights some of the nice syntactic sugar that Groovy has that’s currently not available in Ruby.
I actually came to Groovy/Grails after working with Ruby/Rails for about a year. Both languages and framworks have their strengths and it’s nice to see cross-pollination of good ideas going both ways. From the comments, it sounds like Ruby 1.9 is getting some of the features that we’ve had in Groovy for a while.
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