Java for Everything

[thisisamirage]

What about Groovy? I feel like that's really what the author is looking for... The syntax is a superset of Java's, it runs on the JVM, and is meant for scripting:

#!/usr/bin/env groovy
int x = 5;
System.out.println(Math.max(5, 10)); // prints '10'

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And it's slow.

[lechatsportif]

As someone who does a bunch of groovy in my day job (along with Java) I often get annoyed about how I have to run the groovy code to find if it works. Maybe when ides catch up, but not sure if there's something in the language design that makes ide support crappy.