A dynamic language that is 100-1000x slower (http://stronglytypedblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/java-vs-scala-vs-groovy-performance.html http://stronglytypedblog.blo

A dynamic language that is 100-1000x slower (http://stronglytypedblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/java-vs-scala-vs-groovy-performance.html http://stronglytypedblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/java-vs-scala-...) does not equal Java plus closures and a few other syntactic niceties. You would have been much more accurate referencing Xtend, Kotlin, Gosu, or Ceylon.