There’s a lot of buzz about Groovy right now, which makes Java look like Ruby (including a shameless Rails knockoff). One guy at work is really excited about Groovy, and has incorporated it into his open source project.

From what little I’ve seen from it, it’s got all the same advantages and disadvantages as your standard scripting languages (Perl/Python/Ruby): no safety at all (Compiler? We don’t need no stinkin’ compiler!), but it’s easy to express simple imperative instructions. It runs in the JVM and alongside your other Java code, which makes it a nice way to script your object calls, and I could easily see it taking over the main() classes — I wish I had known about Groovy back when I was on “DataDiff”, so we could have used it to provide plaintext (editable) code to respond to some of the operations-style issues.

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