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by vorg 4310 days ago
> Swift- the new programming language from Apple shares a lot with Groovy, a JVM language

I dispute this claim. According to the top comment at "Swift is a lot like Scala" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8218578 which was submitted an hour before yours here: "Scala, modern C#, Kotlin, Xtend, Nemerle, Ceylon, Dart and Swift have a lot in common. They're all compiled languages with pretty high performance characteristics."

Most of those are JVM languages (Scala, Kotlin, Xtend, Nemerle, Ceylon) which Swift shares a lot with, but Groovy less so I'd say.