> Groovy, in particular, is 100% bidirectionally compatible with Java and has close enough syntax that a developer team well versed in Java will pick it up quic

> Groovy, in particular, is 100% bidirectionally compatible with Java and has close enough syntax that a developer team well versed in Java will pick it up quickly. Groovy's only close to the Java 1.7 syntax. Java 1.8 uses the -> symbol in a completely incompatible way to Groovy. And the most common use case for Groovy, i.e. Gradle, only uses some DSL syntax which is totally unlike anything you've seen in Java. There's no overlap at all.