Re: Sun begins to fund JVM scripting languages

> Tom Nichols schrieb:
> > Not to bash JRuby, but has Sun shown any 'official' support to the
> > Groovy project?  I would have thought Groovy has a lot more potential
> > in terms of interoperability, since it reuses Java standsrds such as
> > beans and servlets.  I've been wondering for a while (for real, no
> > flamewar intended) what does (J)Ruby have that Groovy doesn't?
> >
> > On a similar note, I keep hearing a lot of different things about
> > Sun/Java6 supporting different scripting languages as the 'standard.'
> > Groovy has a JSR, J6SE will ship with Rhino (which is understandable,
> > I guess, since it's more lightweight than Groovy).  I heard something
> > about a PHP reference implementation on the Java scripting API, and
> > then BeanShell has a JSR as well.
> >
> > Can someone straighten me out here?
>
> my last information was, that Sun doesn't want to support any of these
> officially to not to side with any of them and make the others angry...
>
> Now that looks like a lie to me. Ok, they decided different.
>
> I see also negative effects for groovy, because which company should
> support Beanshell or Groovy now, when Sun is putting their attention on
> JRuby... Or to say it different... what should I answer a CEO when I am
> asking for financial support, when he asks me why he should support
> Groovy, when Sun does support JRuby? I really don't know what I should
> say here :(
>
> bye blackdrag
>
> --
> Jochen Theodorou
> Groovy Tech Lead
> http://blackdragsview.blogspot.com/
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