> I use it for Jenkins pipelines and it does not even has an editor with code completion. I must run it through an interpreter to find simple syntax errors, lik

> I use it for Jenkins pipelines and it does not even has an editor with code completion. I must run it through an interpreter to find simple syntax errors, like a missing parenthesis It's sad that so many people form their perception of Groovy from what they encounter inside Jenkins. I do full application development with it inside Eclipse and it is fantastic. None of the above applies. It's basically the same as developing in Java just 30% of the code size.