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Bosque Language vs Groovy: What are the differences?
What is Bosque Language? Experimental Programming Language from Microsoft Research. The key design features of the language provide ways to avoid accidental complexity in the development and coding process. The result is improved developer productivity, increased software quality, and enable a range of new compilers.
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.
Bosque Language and Groovy belong to "Languages" category of the tech stack.
Bosque Language and Groovy are both open source tools. Bosque Language with 4.44K GitHub stars and 312 forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Groovy with 1.49K GitHub stars and 414 GitHub forks.
Pros of Bosque Language
Pros of Groovy
- Java platform44
- Much more productive than java33
- Concise and readable29
- Very little code needed for complex tasks28
- Dynamic language22
- Nice dynamic syntax for the jvm13
- Very fast9
- Can work with JSON as an object7
- Easy to setup7
- Supports closures (lambdas)6
- Literal Collections6
- Syntactic sugar3
- Optional static typing3
- Developer Friendly2
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Cons of Bosque Language
Cons of Groovy
- Groovy Code can be slower than Java Code3
- Absurd syntax1
- Objects cause stateful/heap mess1