You switched from Java to Apache Groovy to lose the static type checking, then later stuck types in your Groovy code to make it act like Java. Sounds like Groov

You switched from Java to Apache Groovy to lose the static type checking, then later stuck types in your Groovy code to make it act like Java. Sounds like Groovy's value-add to the ecosystem was providing the syntax for doing that without writing `Object` everywhere.