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So tired of stupid articles like this hating on java. Java is an extremely flexible language with an insane amount of libraries, frameworks, and design patterns. Furthermore, using groovy is amazing, and can reduce your lines of code quite a bit. The author of this article just sucks at implementing java.

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Well, the punchline is they wrote a tool to implement Java for you, with either a GUI tool or a DSL.

So you still have those libraries and frameworks, and its a similar strategy to using Groovy, but presumably doesn't have the same performance penalty as it generates idiomatic Java code.

Someone criticises Java for being verbose, and you want to refute that with:

> using groovy is amazing, and can reduce your lines of code quite a bit

?

You just cherry picked one part of my rebuttal. Again, java is an extremely flexible language, and the verboseness is up to the user. You can implement very verbose code in plain java, or you can write extremely concise code in plain java. It’s up to the user.

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