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You can add Groovy to that list.
by hota_mazi 10y ago
You can add Groovy to that list.
- rectang 10y agoSince Groovy has come to Apache it has thrived, though. https://twitter.com/aalmiray/status/775614209442840576 https://twitter.com/aalmiray/status/775614209442840576
- hota_mazi 10y agoThe Groovy download numbers have been infamously inflated [1] Besides, most Groovy downloads come from Gradle. Hardly anyone starts a new project with Groovy, it's become a niche language used exclusively to write build files. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8107241 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8107241
- vorg 10y agoNowadays if you check bintray for Groovy downloads, virtually all of them come from Germany, which is where the server hosting the groovy-lang.org site is located. Gradle 3.0, which came out last month, has replaced Groovy with Kotlin as its prefered choice for writing build scripts and plugins, so expect Groovy's use for build scripts to decrease. I think Groovy will live long for scripting on the JVM, in the same way Bash is used for Linux. All the extra cruft Groovy bundles (e.g. MOP, static typing) will become irrelevant over time.
- oldmanjay 10y ago"People only use groovy to get shit done" is not an argument in favor of groovy dying.