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Alang went to hear James Gosling speak and discussed his answer on scripting on the JVM.
James said that Sun wont support any one of the scripting languages over the others because, If we say Groovy is it, the Jython guys will come after us with knives.
So it looks like Sun are sitting back, waiting to see if any scripting language will become popular enough to be worth supporting, which is probably the wise thing to do at the moment.
I don't think Sun should be sitting back. They should be actively listening to the various language developers, and be helping them out. It was a good step when Tim Bray pushed for the meeting at Sun (with the various dynamic language gurus), but there needs to be more inertia.
Compare Sun's stance of sitting back, to Microsofts. They actively go out of their way to help get languages such as Python onto their platform. They even hired the IronPython (and AspectJ) guy. Does Microsoft ONLY support Python on .NET? Of course not! Do other languages come at Microsoft with knives? Not for those reasons ;)
So, come on Sun, show some metal and start thinking of Java as a platform. Get behind some of these languages, help them out, and lets grow the platform as a whole.
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