Anyone remember the Amiga? My memory may be a bit fuzzy, but I remember its architecture as being light-years ahead of its time. One of its most remarkable features was its ability to display millions of colors at a time when the PC was limited to 16. Because of its advanced color and graphic capabilities, it eventually became the basis for NewTek’s Video Toaster, an advanced (for its time) and inexpensive (for its time) video processing system. We’re talking at least 15 years ago, when video on the PC wasn’t even a pipe dream.
So, where am I going with this? The Amiga’s strengths were its downfall. It was relegated to a niche market and eventually withered on the vine. It seems to me that a disproportionately large portion of the buzz around Groovy (what buzz there is) is centered around Grails. Now, Grails may be great, but Groovy is so much more. If Grails becomes the primary reason to adopt Groovy and then loses its head-to-head bout with ROR, Groovy may go the way of the Amiga: excellent but ignored.
