> groovy apps do that [... if] you somewhere specifically invoke System.getRuntime().run("bash"); That's a one-liner in Groovy, written in the Java style of ch

> groovy apps do that [... if] you somewhere specifically invoke System.getRuntime().run("bash"); That's a one-liner in Groovy, written in the Java style of chained method calls, which is the direct equivalent of spawning a shell in non-JVM languages, so that's not an argument for using Groovy instead of PHP.