> Groovy may have gotten better in the meantime, I don't really know Last year Groovy 2 was released which provides a @CompileStatic annotation which directs t

> Groovy may have gotten better in the meantime, I don't really know Last year Groovy 2 was released which provides a @CompileStatic annotation which directs the compiler to statically compile the tagged code which runs faster. Not many people seem to be using it though, e.g. Grails and Gradle only use dynamically compiled Groovy code (afaik). And it's still quite buggy, e.g. just yesterday this serious bug was reported: http://groovy.329449.n5.nabble.com/BUG-in-CompileStatic-mode-quot-a-i-a-j-quot-won-t-work-td5714545.html http://groovy.329449.n5.nabble.com/BUG-in-CompileStatic-mode...