Nowadays 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 locat

Nowadays 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.