Thanks - that's really interesting to hear. It sounds like your use predated 2.0, at which time I would certainly have said the same thing. However static compilation (a feature of 2.0) has definitely changed my feeling about it - you're getting compile time type checking and near-Java speeds, but all the highly expressive Groovy syntax still works.
> you're getting compile time type checking and near-Java speeds
The static compilation added in Groovy 2 is much faster than dynamically-compiled code but is still buggy e.g. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14774709/groovy-2-1-0-wei.... It was written by one developer, and first shipped in Grails only 2 months ago, which doesn't even seem to use the static compilation features (correct me if I'm wrong). Let the Groovy/Grails developers eat their own dogfood first before recommending Groovy's static compilation to others.
