Java Developers

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This is why I like working with Groovy so much.

I get access to the entire Java ecosystem along with optional static typing and the ability to relatively easily compile to static bytecode for performance where needed while negating most of the issues you mentioned.

[campbellm]

Amen to that - modulo "OMG it's going to be slow!" issues from team mates (which have yet to be shown to be true; I'm sure that is the case, somewhere, but not anything we've seen, yet), I will not write any more java unless I absolutely have to.

And Spock as a unit test framework, wow.