What is Groovy?

• JVM Languages
• Groovy, Jython, JRuby, Scala, Clojure, Kotlin
• Apache foundation top-level project
• ‘Scripting’ version of Java
• Dynamycisizes the Java platform
• Syntactic sugar
• Access to most Java functionality and libs
• ~99% of Java code compiles as Groovy (except Java 8 Lambdas)
• Dynamically or optionally statically typed
• Very well suited for DSLs
• Java 12, 13 & 14 are implementing Groovy features, LOL