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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.

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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 Bosque Language?

      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?

      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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