> Scripting and interpreted languages like python, ruby are a different thing altogether. I agree with you that ruby/rails or python/django get it done a lot faster. On the JVM, we get close but not quite - with Grails and Play

Play doesn't use a scripting/interpreted language, it uses Scala, a statically-typed one, but with type inference which you may have confused with dynamicity. As for Groovy/Grails, they seem to be dying off lately.