On: Node.js Examples – How Enterprises Use Node in 2016

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> The groovy compiler supports including source code line numbers and variable names in compiled jar files

I haven't used Groovy since v 1.8, and certainly didn't know about this facility then.

> why would you expect that Groovy can be compiled and then decompiled to Java?

It worked in Groovy 1.0, and the decompiles to Java were useful back then when Groovy often had unexpected behavior.