For my CommunityOne talk...how about everyone posts five "interesting" 
JVM language projects. This can certainly include languages that aren't 
under active development right now or that don't have a large following. 
I just want to gather a list of languages that "we implementers" and JVM 
language enthusiasts think the world should know about (and which are 
good examples of the work we're doing on VM).

These do not represent languages you think are the "best" or "most 
important" or anything like that, so be honest. It's just going to be 
added to a flat list, probably in alphabetical order.

Here's my top five "interesting" language projects:

JRuby - pushing the bounds of class generation and dynamic invocation 
perf, as well as pulling a whole other platform into the JVM ecosystem

Groovy - providing almost all Java language features and two-way 
integration in addition to many (most?) dynamic language features found 
in languages like Ruby.

Jython - A second opportunity to pull a whole platform into the JVM 
world, and a very receptive Python community that doesn't hate anything 
with a J in it

Scala - Not obvious? Solid integration with Java and object/functional 
goodness.

Duby - Ok, I'm biased, but if I ever get time to work on it Duby could 
marry Ruby syntax with a full complement of Java features and local type 
inference. Exactly what I've been looking for.

- Charlie

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