Notes on Scala and Groovy

I love Scala's:

• concurrency/actor support
• combined Class definition with primary constructor
• operators == methods
• sensible typing

I dislike:

• Collections are not 1:1 compatible with Java Collections
• Terse syntax still feels awkward to a 10 year Java veteran

I love Groovy's:

• Close but improved Java-like syntax
• Closures
• Builder libs

I dislike:

• Hard to remember when parenthesis are optional.
• Lack of anonymous classes (such a pain for libs like Wicket)

Maybe call it.... Scooby? ;-)