Groovy: Dynamic Language for the JVM... Groovy! - I'm continuously encouraged by the influence dynamic languages such as Ruby and Python have had on mainstream runtimes like the CLR and JVM. Direct ports like JRuby, Jython to the JVM and IronRuby and IronPython to the CLR are truly exciting. More exciting still are languages like Boo that are built from the ground up for mainstream runtimes. I've finally had the chance to fool around with a language I've been dying to dig in to that was built specifically for the JVM: Groovy. Groovy is an agile, dynamically-typed, well supported language that is perhaps most famous as the basis for Groovy on Grails, a rails-like web development framework. Example As I typically do I'll show you a quick twitter status example to get your feet wet. Consider the following class...
