The language now called Groovy would have been JavaScript if the name wasn’t already taken.

Haha completely agree, it is the "scripting language" made in the image of Java! It's a great language by the way!

There was also beanshell if you remember, of course never as polished nor adopted like groovy but it was also fun to use.

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mikepurvis 6 hours ago | parent [-]

Is groovy actually really "adopted" much of anywhere? I feel like for 99% of normal people, their only real exposure to it is as the DSL of gradle and jenkins.

I can't imagine writing anything of substance primarily in groovy.

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dizhn 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Rundeck uses it for its plugins. It might be like how people use lua for their main program's dynamic scripting except they know Java so they use groovy.

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xxs 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

>I can't imagine writing anything of substance primarily in groovy.

That's solely based on a poor imagination, not trying...

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nunobrito 6 hours ago | parent [-]

Have to agree with the previous person. Never saw a relevant project made from Groovy. Even with Beanshell I've included it a few times in other projects for basic scripting/customization within the app but groovy? Never in 15 years to now.

	▲	mikepurvis 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I think embedding and testing/plugins/DSLs really is the main use-case. It's a terrible fit for a CLI tool if you've got to wait for a JVM to boot up, especially in a world where people are now used to those kinds of things being instantaneous rust or go binaries.