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I work in a very large company that has primarily Java for web apps and back end processes in COBOL/Mainframe environments. I've been steering things towards Groovy or Ruby for new projects, largely using productivity as the justification. Top push backs from upper management have been: 1) Universities we recruit from teach Java & most prospective employees already know Java 2) Costs of retraining workforce 3) They don't understand those langs can be utilized with our current JVM ecosystem

I feel pretty much all those reasons are specious and really shouldn't be holding things back. We've got a foothold established with success of some smaller projects using Groovy and Ruby to "prove" their viability. I'd like to try Scala next to see how it would fit for some of our other projects.

TLDR: At least one large company is making efforts to evolve beyond just Java in the JVM.