I was astonished to discover Groovy is now over its performance problems
It isn't. Gradle still ships with the slower Groovy 1.x, and Grails, altho it ships with Groovy 2.x, doesn't actually use any of the faster static-typing, presumably because it's still too buggy.
It would be nice if Gradle used Scala or Kotlin as its build language instead, but with a name like "GradleWare", I suspect someone from VMWare is pulling the strings to keep Gradle tied to Grails (and Groovy).
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It isn't. Gradle still ships with the slower Groovy 1.x, and Grails, altho it ships with Groovy 2.x, doesn't actually use any of the faster static-typing, presumably because it's still too buggy.
It would be nice if Gradle used Scala or Kotlin as its build language instead, but with a name like "GradleWare", I suspect someone from VMWare is pulling the strings to keep Gradle tied to Grails (and Groovy).