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Re:OpenJDK now available for Windows by gosukiwi on Thursday December 22, 2016 @10:43AM (#13237971)
The JVM is great, Java, not so much. At least we have Clojure, Scala, Groovy and Kotlin.
Re:OpenJDK now available for Windows by vorg on Thursday December 22, 2016 @03:59PM (#13240348)
Those languages complement Java on the JVM to varying degrees. Kotlin and Scala were built to progressively replace Java in a codebase. Clojure was built for the JVM as its first target architecture. Apache Groovy was originally to script Java code, e.g. tests and glue code. (Although Groovy was later repurposed as a Java replacement in Groovy 2, not many people use it for that.)
Re:OpenJDK now available for Windows by voidfunc on Thursday December 22, 2016 @06:55PM (#13241595)
Agree with your assessment of Groovy. It made the JVM easy to use for simple scripting and served a really good purpose as glue language between big monolithic JVM software systems.

I haven't used it for awhile now, but I used to work on a serious Groovy code base. It's out of it's league now. Once Kotlin's scripting story gets rolling it should eat the rest of Groovy's lunch.