> it is so similar to Java code, that any Java developer can pick it up Perhaps Java 7, but Apache Groovy doesn't have the lambda syntax from Java 8. Developme

> it is so similar to Java code, that any Java developer can pick it up Perhaps Java 7, but Apache Groovy doesn't have the lambda syntax from Java 8. Development on Groovy has stagnated -- someone even contributed a fully working Antlr-4 based parser to replace their outdated Antlr-2 based one last year, but it's been sitting in their development repository at Github going nowhere ever since.