Giving Groovy a Chance
Last year I learned Ruby and Rails and found them to be fun to program in and also very productive. I was in particular very impressed with how well thought out Rails was. After years of programming Web applications I could see the power of automating many of the unpleasant and mundane tasks that go along with Web development.
Since Java is still my bread and butter, I am spending time this year learning Groovy and eventually hope to start learning Grails. So far I like what I have seen with Groovy. It shares many of the language features of Ruby and is very easy to install (especially if you already have a JVM installed on your machine). I also get to use all of the existing Java classes I am already familiar with, so I am able to be productive with Groovy right out of the gate. Is there anyone out there playing with Groovy and would like to share what kinds of real world things are you doing with it?