Happy you've found a language that works out for you! You're certainly a prolific promoter of Groovy here at Hacker News...

7 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7360491 "Most of our code is in Groovy"

20 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7278426 "Assuming there is a next startup and it's anything like the current startup, then I'd probably go with Groovy again. Groovy has worked very well for us."

2 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7042329 "We've been using Grails and Groovy extensively (almost exclusively) at Fogbeam Labs for about 3 years now, and I am very happy with how that decision has worked out"

2 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7013785 "Anyway, if you already know Java and have some familiarity with that world, I can't recommend Groovy and Grails highly enough."

2 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7011934 "if you asked me to write a non-trivial program starting today, and I had to optimize for productivity, I'd pick Groovy."

Agreed re: many ways to do one thing, Scala's no Python ;-) Readability is a matter of experience. From the outside looking in some Scala code may look fairly dense, but the same can be said of Haskell. Groovy wins in this department, no argument there, any Java dev can grok Groovy.