During the trip back home from BASE meeting, I pondered on why I chose to learn Scala in the first place. What I've seen so far tells me it is a great JVM language, there are some things I do not like but perhaps it is because I lack the big picture, which is why I decided to follow on Sundar's steps and present a comparison table between Java, Groovy and Scala. This endeavor will surely help learning the language at a quicker pace, hopefully it will also put a stop to emerging posts that boast Scala over Groovy because of two items and those two items alone:

• performance
• type system

Quick links to Sundar's tables, please note those entries were written in 2006, the languages have been updated since, some missing features are now available

• Java, Groovy and (J)Ruby
• Java, Groovy and (J)Ruby - Part 2
• Java, JavaScript and Jython
• Java, JavaScript and Jython - Part 2

I'll be posting the data as I make progress, stay tuned