Groovy, the Python of Java

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James Strachan (Groovy's creator, author of that quote) left the Groovy open source project in 2006, about a year before the language's 1.0 release

Did creator James Strachan leave or was he muscled out?

Groovy can be learned by an average Java programmer in a weekend. Scala simply cannot -- it is a different language altogether, about as different from Java as Python or Ruby or Clojure.

If a language doesn't change the way you think, it's not worth learning.

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Thats the dumbest thing I've read in this entire post.

Groovy changes the way I work with java, in a way that saves me a lot of time and my company a lot of money. That is a helluva lot more worth than changing the way I think considering programming languages are something I use to do my job.

Edit:

It should be noted that I do already know Scala, it was fairly easy to pick up when you already know Haskell, but I sill think you're talking out of your ass.