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JAX London 2010: Guillaume LaForge & Dierk Koenig on Scala, Groovy, JRuby, Clojure - Which JVM language is for you?

Scala, Groovy, JRuby, Clojure - Which JVM language is for you?
In this discussion, panel members Dierk König, Guillaume Laforge (Groovy), Charles Nutter (JRuby), Stefan Tilkov (Clojure) and Ted Neward (Scala) discuss with the audience the pros and cons of the popular JVM-based lanauges Scala, Groovy, JRuby and Clojure in order to attempt to reach a verdict of rank. The panellists try to logically wade through arguments based on the key concepts of each language along with their primary applications and try to resolve clichéd comparisons such as performance.

ABOUT GUILLAUME LAFORGE

Guillaume is the Groovy Project Manager and Spec Lead of JSR-241, the Java Specification Request standardizing the Groovy dynamic language. Along with Graeme Rocher, he founded G2One, Inc., the company dedicated to sustaining and leading the developm
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ABOUT DIERK KOENIG

Dierk König works as a fellow for Canoo Engineering AG, Basel, Switzerland. He is a committer to Groovy and Grails, and a manager of the open-source Canoo WebTest project. He is the lead author of "Groovy in Action" book.
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PODCAST SCALA, GROOVY, JRUBY, CLOJURE - WHICH JVM LANGUAGE IS FOR YOU?

This session took part at the JAX London 2010. You can view the other 12 podcasts here.

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