> No offense to Groovy Groovy (on the JVM) joined the Apache Software Foundation 2 years ago after being ditched by VMware/Pivotal. Like the EF, the ASF is ano

> No offense to Groovy Groovy (on the JVM) joined the Apache Software Foundation 2 years ago after being ditched by VMware/Pivotal. Like the EF, the ASF is another place where software goes to die -- Apache Groovy and Eclipse Ceylon. There's nothing wrong with the original premise of Groovy being a lightweight dynamically-typed scripting language for the JVM, by adding closures to Beanshell. But along the way it got plagued by feature-creep and leadership problems, and started trying to compete with statically-typed languages like Java and Scala. It's only real widespread use nowadays is for writing 20-liner build scripts for Gradle in Android Studio. As for Grails, no-one's upgrading their old version 2 projects to version 3, or starting new projects in it.