Groovy

Groovy is an object-oriented, dynamic programming language for the Java Platform as an alternative to the Java programming language. It has features similar to those of Python, Ruby, Perl, and Smalltalk. Groovy is currently undergoing standardization via the Java Community Process under JSR 241.

Groovy uses a Java-like curly bracket syntax which is dynamically compiled to JVM bytecodes and that works seamlessly with other Java code and libraries. The Groovy compiler can be used to generate standard Java bytecode to be used by any Java project or it can be used dynamically as a scripting language. You can use existing Java libraries in Groovy.

Groovy has a web development framework called Grails which is similar to Ruby on Rails.

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