[carsongross]

That's certainly one perspective.

Here's another one: Gosu is the life's work of some talented developers at a successful startup, who have tried hard to build a pragmatic successor to Java. It is not perfect, and of course you should be skeptical of any new technology, but it has some promise, and here are some interesting features of the language:

* Type-safe reflection with feature literals

* Embedded classpaths in programs, including maven coordinates

* Integrated type-safe templates

* Pragmatic extension methods on the core java data structures via enhancements

* Null-safe operators

* Mixin support via the delegate keyword

And so on...