Didn't James Strachan, the creator of Groovy, basically say that if he could do it over again, he'd create Scala? (a little Googling later...) "Though my tip

Didn't James Strachan, the creator of Groovy, basically say that if he could do it over again, he'd create Scala? (a little Googling later...) "Though my tip though for the long term replacement of javac is Scala. I'm very impressed with it! I can honestly say if someone had shown me the Programming in Scala book by by Martin Odersky, Lex Spoon & Bill Venners back in 2003 I'd probably have never created Groovy." [1] [1] http://macstrac.blogspot.com/2009/04/scala-as-long-term-replacement-for.html http://macstrac.blogspot.com/2009/04/scala-as-long-term-repl... Edit: I should add that I'm considering using Groovy with a micro-framework called Ratpack (http://www.ratpack.io/ http://www.ratpack.io/), so I'm only bringing this up as a part of the conversation if someone's trying to figure out what they want to learn next.