> Java should be more like Groovy It has been since lambdas were introduced in Java 8. Groovy's original design by its creator James Strachan was about adding

> Java should be more like Groovy It has been since lambdas were introduced in Java 8. Groovy's original design by its creator James Strachan was about adding closures to the dynamic typing that Beanshell had at the time. The stuff added to Groovy since then (e.g. the MOP for Grails, DSL syntax, static typing in 2.0) are things Java already does better or things (if you ask me) it shouldn't do.