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Groovy vs Markdown: What are the differences?
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.
What is Markdown? Text-to-HTML conversion tool/syntax for web writers, by John Gruber. Markdown is two things: (1) a plain text formatting syntax; and (2) a software tool, written in Perl, that converts the plain text formatting to HTML.
Groovy and Markdown belong to "Languages" category of the tech stack.
"Java platform" is the top reason why over 38 developers like Groovy, while over 345 developers mention "Easy formatting" as the leading cause for choosing Markdown.
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.
Asana, Code School, and GoSquared are some of the popular companies that use Markdown, whereas Groovy is used by Starbucks, Cask, and PedidosYa. Markdown has a broader approval, being mentioned in 756 company stacks & 718 developers stacks; compared to Groovy, which is listed in 79 company stacks and 73 developer stacks.
Pros of Groovy
- Java platform42
- Much more productive than java32
- Concise and readable28
- Very little code needed for complex tasks27
- Dynamic language21
- Nice dynamic syntax for the jvm12
- Very fast9
- Easy to setup6
- Can work with JSON as an object6
- Literal Collections5
- Supports closures (lambdas)5
- Syntactic sugar2
- Interoperable with Java2
- Optional static typing2
- Developer Friendly2
Pros of Markdown
- Easy formatting345
- Widely adopted245
- Intuitive194
- Github integration136
- Great for note taking40
- Defacto GitHub lingo2
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Cons of Groovy
- Groovy Code can be slower than Java Code3
- Objects cause stateful/heap mess1
Cons of Markdown
- Inconsistend flavours eg github, reddit, mmd etc1
- Limited syntax1
- Not suitable for longer documents1
- Non-extensible1
- No right indentation1
- No underline1
- Cannot centralise (HTML code needed)1
- Unable to indent tables1
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