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Groovy Maintenance

Groovy
KindProgramming language
Appeared2003
StatusMaintenance
CreatorJames Strachan / Apache
FamilyC
Sourcegroovy-lang.org ↗

Java's dynamic sibling — scripting syntax on the JVM, Gradle's configuration language, and the template for what Kotlin later did better.

Created by James Strachan

James Strachan's Groovy (2003) — Java's dynamic sibling — added closures, builders, and optional typing to the JVM, with Gradle making it the build language.\n\nApache adopted it in 2015; it remains the JVM's scripting lingua franca.

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Sources

  1. groovy-lang.org/
  2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Groovy