At JavaPolis '07 [1], Dick Wall and Carl Quinn of JavaPosse [2] fame have interviewed Guillaume Laforge [3], the Groovy [4] project manager, and asked him about:

• the latest release of Groovy 1.5 and its novelties [5],
• more details on the come back of the 'infamous' for loop,
• the support of generics,
• the inclusion of closures in Java compared to Groovy's closures,
• what Grails is and why it matters,
• how simple it is to leverage Grails in IT's today infrastructure,
• the first class support of SQL and XML in Groovy,
• and also what the future will hold in the upcoming Groovy releases.