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Groovy vs Imba: What are the differences?
Developers describe Groovy as "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. On the other hand, Imba is detailed as "Take a whole lot of Ruby, a pinch of Python and some React, get Imba". Imba is a new programming language for the web that compiles to performant and readable JavaScript. It has language level support for defining, extending, subclassing, instantiating and rendering dom nodes.
Groovy and Imba can be categorized as "Languages" tools.
Groovy and Imba are both open source tools. It seems that Imba with 3.5K GitHub stars and 128 forks on GitHub has more adoption than Groovy with 1.49K GitHub stars and 414 GitHub forks.
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
Pros of Imba
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Cons of Groovy
- Groovy Code can be slower than Java Code3
- Absurd syntax1
- Objects cause stateful/heap mess1