I'd be over the moon if Groovy becomes practical for Android development. It would really ease the pain of not having recent versions of Java available. A lot

I'd be over the moon if Groovy becomes practical for Android development. It would really ease the pain of not having recent versions of Java available. A lot remains to be seen though - a lot of these Java alternatives turn out to be pretty flaky with weird unsupported corners of functionality, poor integration with IDEs, debuggers, etc., and when you have weird bugs you're in an extremely small isolated minority in trying to figure it out. There's a whole lot more to it than just getting it to compile / run.