Groovy is a great scripting language for the JVM, pretty easy and powerfull,supports optional typing, and has java like integration with the jvm. Groovy++ is a

Groovy is a great scripting language for the JVM, pretty easy and powerfull,supports optional typing, and has java like integration with the jvm. Groovy++ is a statically typed extension to groovy that add type inference , and let's you have java like performance for groovy, by doing little more work. vert.x supports groovy, play supports groovy and play's template engine uses groovy.