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Groovy vs Unison: 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, Unison is detailed as "Modern, statically-typed purely functional programming language". It is an open source functional programming language based on a simple idea with big implications: code is content-addressed and immutable.
Groovy and Unison belong to "Languages" category of the tech stack.
Groovy and Unison are both open source tools. Unison with 2.53K GitHub stars and 110 forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Groovy with 1.49K GitHub stars and 418 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 Unison
- Algebraic effects1
- Simpler1
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Cons of Groovy
- Groovy Code can be slower than Java Code3
- Absurd syntax1
- Objects cause stateful/heap mess1
Cons of Unison
- Alpha quality1