[rufugee]

I'm curious...why do you say it has stagnated? Seems to still be pretty popular...especially in the gradle and grails spaces.

I've done quite a bit of groovy and have really enjoyed it. After years of doing java, and then years of ruby, and then trying to go back to java, I really struggled with rationalizing the move to myself given the immense amount of extra work java required to do anything productive. Groovy made the jump palatable, and in many ways I prefer groovy to ruby.

That said, I haven't written any code which is particularly performance sensitive yet. However, groovy now has @CompileStatic, so you can statically compile the perf sensitive bits. I'm sure that doesn't completely solve the problem, but it's an option.

I really do hope Kotlin succeeds thought. Having something in the middle of groovy and scala syntax-wise with no performance concerns and the great java integration groovy brings would be spectacular.

[vorg]

> the great java integration groovy brings

I recently wrote some scripts using Clojure to test some Java I'd written. It worked great, and I could use a macro to get rid of some duplication that functions couldn't.