How to Run and Debug Groovy code in VSCode

Hi, all. This is my first article here, so please don't be strict.

For a log time I used Pycharm of Jetbrains. It is really cool software. But not for a long time I became curious, why so many people use vscode and I started to make my all experiments:
I have configured my vscode for Python and several other languages.

But in my current job I need to program on Groovy programming language. *Spolier, Intelij Idea works with Groovy out of the box, but if you curious like me, this article might be interesting to you.

I have spent some time, in attempt to configure my VScode with a help of Github copilot - no luck. So when I was tired, and I was ready to give up, i decided to try Google Gemini. And It showed me different answer. So next morning I decided to try solution of Google Gemini.
After several attempts I succeed. I'm Linux user, so my guide will be for Linux users

Here is my guide:

• Open "Run And Debug" tab.
• Click on "create launch.json file"
• Select Java from dropdown list
• Replace content of the launch.json file with content below:

{
    "version": "0.2.0",
    "configurations": [
        {
            "type": "java",
            "name": "Debug Standalone Groovy Script",
            "request": "launch",
            "cwd": "${workspaceFolder}",
            "args": [
                "${file}"
            ],
            "classPaths": [
                //Put here list of Groovy jars as a list of strings
            ],
            "mainClass": "groovy.ui.GroovyMain",
            "console": "integratedTerminal"

        }
    ]
}

if you have used sdkman installator, your groovy jars will be:

/home/YOUR_USER/.sdkman/candidates/groovy/VERSION/

if you have class with main method, replace "mainClass" value with a path to your class.

Here is bash script which prints all of the paths of groovy jar files as a list of separated strings

groovy_lib_path="/home/YOUR_USER/.sdkman/candidates/groovy/4.0.28/lib"
find "$groovy_lib_path" -maxdepth 1 -name "*.jar" | sed 's|^|                "|; s|$|",|'

• Save launch.json file
• press F5