It's a pity Apache Groovy's ongoing governance problems stopped it achieving a similar goal. Groovy's still great, though, for writing quick'n'dirty scripts for

It's a pity Apache Groovy's ongoing governance problems stopped it achieving a similar goal. Groovy's still great, though, for writing quick'n'dirty scripts for testing Java classes and defining builds, and Grails still offers Groovy exclusively for scripting (though I wouldn't be surprised if Grails soon follows Gradle down the path of enabling Kotlin as a scripting language).