The good thing about Apache Groovy (on the JVM) is when the big ball of mud starts forming, because its syntax is close enough to Java's, it's easy to quickly s

The good thing about Apache Groovy (on the JVM) is when the big ball of mud starts forming, because its syntax is close enough to Java's, it's easy to quickly split parts off and rewrite it in Java. Only the lambda syntax and some other inconsistencies like the behavior of == are different.