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Yeah, Groovy really is an awesome all round language. Nearly all the benefits of Java, Python & Ruby rolled into one. And so easily embeddable into any Java app, you can use it just where you need it or everywhere. It benchmarks substantially faster than Python and Ruby for the things I do, and it's really easy to optimize by just dropping into Java for anything that is a bottleneck which is far better than dropping to C and losing the all the benefits of living in a VM.