> Languages like Groovy were an over-reaction against unreadable XML in the Java ecosystem. The correct solution is to switch from an unreadable to a readable d

> Languages like Groovy were an over-reaction against unreadable XML in the Java ecosystem. The correct solution is to switch from an unreadable to a readable declarative language for configuring software. I somewhat agree with you. Unfortunately Jenkins team seems to have bet in the opposite direction by going full groovy https://github.com/jenkinsci/pipeline-examples https://github.com/jenkinsci/pipeline-examples