My last personal experience of programming in Apache Groovy was with version 1.8. Often I tried recompiling some Java code from Groovy&#x27;s codebase into Groovy, and even after changing it to allow for occasionally different semantics, it wouldn&#x27;t work. It could be that Groovy 2.4 has improved a lot since v 1.8, but with the history of exaggerated claims associated with Groovy&#x27;s backers, I&#x27;d need more evidence for your claim. For example, <i>if the next version of Groovy ships having translated its own codebase into statically compiled Groovy</i>, I&#x27;ll happily look at it again for building systems. In the meantime, I&#x27;ll only trust it for scripting.<p>Then there&#x27;s their governance problem -- nowadays, a single person owns the groovy-lang.org website, whereas until early last year it was governed by 5 &quot;despots&quot; at Codehaus. It&#x27;s never good when leadership becomes less consensual.