Well, at one time it aimed to be quite a bit more. As I recall there was a lot of envy of dynamic language in general and Ruby in particular when Groovy first

Well, at one time it aimed to be quite a bit more. As I recall there was a lot of envy of dynamic language in general and Ruby in particular when Groovy first got popular. There was even a Groovy on Rails framework, just to make the longing more obvious. From memory, Groovy only reinvented itself as a scripting language some years later.