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Groovy's static typing is quite recent, written by one person only, and not actually used in many codebases. Neither Grails nor Gradle uses it.
There's only really 2 or 3 use cases for Groovy:
* quick & dirty scripts for Java class testing and manip
* Grails
* more recently, Gradle (which still ships with Groovy 1.x)
If you want static typing on the JVM, best use a language designed from the ground up to be staticly typed, e.g. Java, Scala, Kotlin, Ceylon.
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Groovy's static typing is quite recent, written by one person only, and not actually used in many codebases. Neither Grails nor Gradle uses it.
There's only really 2 or 3 use cases for Groovy:
* quick & dirty scripts for Java class testing and manip
* Grails
* more recently, Gradle (which still ships with Groovy 1.x)
If you want static typing on the JVM, best use a language designed from the ground up to be staticly typed, e.g. Java, Scala, Kotlin, Ceylon.