This post probably only pertains to my fellow dorks. The language I end up writing nearly all of my work stuff in is not Java, but a Guidewire-developed language that is hosted within the JVM. Guidewire has plans to open source it, and just presented it in recent weeks at the JVM Language Summit conference.
The not-too-long slide deck that one of our developers used to present it at the conference is here: Introduction to Gosu
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Looks a lot like scala (which I've been working with a lot lately) but with a few extra features and a bunch of missing features.
What's the feature you love the most?
In a Guidewire-agnostic sense, possibly closures/blocks...use 'em left and right.
In the context of actual Guidewire work, the big win is probably the open type system -- everywhere I am able to interact with things in the system natively via Gosu, which is pretty sweet and seamless in practice. There is no annoying generation step or anything -- everything is surfaced in the same way for me to mess with, be it pages or underlying application data entities (claims, etc.).
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