What I envy [[wikipedia::Groovy|Groovy]] users is [[Groovy]]'s support for ''AST transformations''. This is basically the same thing that project [[Lombok]] does to [[Java]], however it is not just a set of few hardcoded [[annotations]], it is general purpose system that allows everyone to easily define such [[annotations]] and their compile time [[AnnotationProcessor]]s (read [http://hamletdarcy.blogspot.com/2010/01/groovy-ast-transformations-by-example.html Groovy AST Transformation by Example] for simple introduction).

Will [[Java]] ever woke up from its last two/three years stagnation?