[danudey]

I've been using Groovy extensively to script and automate inside of Jenkins, and hoo boy it's actually kinda nice.

My absolute favorite thing is being able to do something like:

    someIntegerCollection = someStringCollection*.toInteger()

I also find the use of closures for things like collection filtering to be quite nice:

    canadianUsers = someUserCollection.findAll { user ->
      user.countryCode = "CA"
    }

The equivalent in Python is a little more cumbersome and overly verbose:

    canadianUsers = [user for user in someUserCollection if user.countrycode = "CA"]

I'll still be writing things in Python whenever I can, but when I do write in Groovy there's a lot of nice stuff I get to have.