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The JVM is great, Java, not so much. At least we have Clojure, Scala, Groovy and Kotlin.


Those languages complement Java on the JVM to varying degrees. Kotlin and Scala were built to progressively replace Java in a codebase. Clojure was built for the JVM as its first target architecture. Apache Groovy was originally to script Java code, e.g. tests and glue code. (Although Groovy was later repurposed as a Java replacement in Groovy 2, not many people use it for that.)


Agree with your assessment of Groovy. It made the JVM easy to use for simple scripting and served a really good purpose as glue language between big monolithic JVM software systems.

I haven't used it for awhile now, but I used to work on a serious Groovy code base. It's out of it's league now. Once Kotlin's scripting story gets rolling it should eat the rest of Groovy's lunch.




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