[tunesmith]

I guess as someone with several years of Java experience and a few years of Scala experience, this is a concern I've never really had. For all of Java's strengths, it is verbose and annoying. I think the biggest lift is the decision to move to something like Kotlin or Scala instead.

I have noticed something like what you describe with Groovy though. We've had groovy enthusiasts that have peppered our java codebases with Groovy. It's not viral or contagious, and ultimately just served to confuse matters and make the code harder to understand. We've had more than a couple of refactor efforts to get rid of groovy code and turn it back into java.