> I'm sure if Google developed Android Studio from scratch, [...] maybe they would have chosen Groovy I'm sure they would have also developed the build languag

> I'm sure if Google developed Android Studio from scratch, [...] maybe they would have chosen Groovy I'm sure they would have also developed the build language from scratch also, and I doubt it would have been as cluttered as Apache Groovy. Check out the Groovy developers mailing list [1] to see how inactive Groovy development is nowadays. [1] http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/groovy-dev/201705.mbox/browser http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/groovy-dev/201705.m...