I switched to Groovy/Grails a couple of years ago and haven't looked back. Lots of fun to work with, and allows me to reuse my previous knowledge base. In add

I switched to Groovy/Grails a couple of years ago and haven't looked back. Lots of fun to work with, and allows me to reuse my previous knowledge base. In addition to reusing my previous expertise, there are four thing I really like about it: * Convention over Configuration makes things so much simpler * Groovy Language has a lot of great features, allowing for much more concise code (though it does take some time to get used to dynamic typing) * Plugin ecosystem - over 500 plugins on various topics allow you to get things done much quicker. The plugin architecture is wonderful and allows you to compose your from reusable blocks, which could have their own UI. Best actual (as oppoed to theoretical) code reusability I've ever seen * GORM (object relational mapper) is a thing of beauty. It's fairly implementation-agnostic, so you can use it with Relational DBs, switch to Mongo or Reddis as the persistence backend fairly easily. Definitely recommend you check it out. In terms of jobs, it's not as big of a community as Java yet, but I definitely see many jobs advertising those skills.