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Arc vs Groovy: What are the differences?

What is Arc? A dialect of the Lisp programming language developed by Paul Graham and Robert Morris. Arc is designed for exploratory programming: the kind where you decide what to write by writing it. A good medium for exploratory programming is one that makes programs brief and malleable, so that's what we've aimed for. This is a medium for sketching software.

What is Groovy? A dynamic language for the Java platform. Groovy builds upon the strengths of Java but has additional power features inspired by languages like Python, Ruby and Smalltalk. It makes modern programming features available to Java developers with almost-zero learning curve.

Arc and Groovy can be primarily classified as "Languages" tools.

Groovy is an open source tool with 1.49K GitHub stars and 414 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Groovy's open source repository on GitHub.

According to the StackShare community, Groovy has a broader approval, being mentioned in 79 company stacks & 73 developers stacks; compared to Arc, which is listed in 7 company stacks and 6 developer stacks.

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      Java platform
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      Much more productive than java
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      Concise and readable
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      Very little code needed for complex tasks
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      Dynamic language
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      Nice dynamic syntax for the jvm
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      Very fast
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      Can work with JSON as an object
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      Easy to setup
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      Supports closures (lambdas)
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      Literal Collections
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      Syntactic sugar
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      Optional static typing
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      Developer Friendly

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        Groovy Code can be slower than Java Code
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        Absurd syntax
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        Objects cause stateful/heap mess

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      What is Arc?

      Arc is designed for exploratory programming: the kind where you decide what to write by writing it. A good medium for exploratory programming is one that makes programs brief and malleable, so that's what we've aimed for. This is a medium for sketching software.

      What is Groovy?

      It is a powerful multi-faceted programming language for the JVM platform. It supports a spectrum of programming styles incorporating features from dynamic languages such as optional and duck typing, but also static compilation and static type checking at levels similar to or greater than Java through its extensible static type checker. It aims to greatly increase developer productivity with many powerful features but also a concise, familiar and easy to learn syntax.

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