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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 senior software developer, mentor, and coach for Canoo Engineering AG, Basel, Switzerland. He is committer to Groovy and Grails, lead author of the "Groovy in Action" book, and manager of the open-source Canoo WebTest project.
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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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RIA, AJAX & WEB PODCASTS

	Comet Panel Dylan Schiemann : 13th Jul 2010
	Carat Jonathan Leighton : 12th Jul 2010
	ActionEmbedding Phil Cowans : 12th Jul 2010
	HTML5 - Why should I care : 1st Jul 2010
	Keynote Jeremy Grelle : 16th Jun 2010
	Building Flex Applications with Grails. Tomas Lin : 16th Jun 2010
	An Intro to the Spring ActionScript Fram Christophe Herreman : 16th Jun 2010
	Parkbench Panel Discussion : 16th Jun 2010
	Flex/Java communications Michaël Chaize : 16th Jun 2010
	Enterprise Flex Applications with the Pa Jens Halm : 16th Jun 2010
	An Introduction to the Cocoa AMF Framewo Graeme Harker : 16th Jun 2010
	my first ruby Murray Steele : 14th Jun 2010
	UNIX John Leach : 14th Jun 2010
	The mobile web Nikolai Onken : 8th Jun 2010
	HTML5 Flyover Peter Lubbers : 19th May 2010

OTHER RIA, AJAX & WEB EVENTS

	Flex London User Group FREE EVENT: Flex London User Group August London, Monday, August 2nd
	London Ruby User Group FREE EVENT: LRUG London, Monday, August 9th
	London Ajax User Group FREE EVENT: August London Ajax London, Tuesday, August 10th
	A NoSQL Summer FREE EVENT: A NoSQL Summer London Meetup London, Wednesday, August 11th
	London HTML5 User Group FREE EVENT: HTML5 London, Wednesday, August 18th
	Peter Lubber's HTML5 “Fast Track” 2 DAY COURSE. Featuring Peter Lubbers London, Tuesday, August 24th
	A NoSQL Summer FREE EVENT: A NoSQL Summer London Meetup London, Wednesday, August 25th
	Peter Lubbers' HTML5 WebSocket and Communication 2 DAY COURSE. Featuring Peter Lubbers London, Thursday, August 26th