It has been upgraded to Grails 3. I can't speak to the wider Groovy and Grails recent trends(I know they have been trending down in recent years), however Grail

It has been upgraded to Grails 3. I can't speak to the wider Groovy and Grails recent trends(I know they have been trending down in recent years), however Grails development seems to be picking up a bit and I'm certainly going to be dealing with it for the foreseeable future. VS Code's Java support actually works really well now with a few rough edges based on a mostly Java project I was working with today. Unfortunately even when components are largely Java, a lot of testing and build scripting(Gradle) will be in Groovy. The terseness is nice for sure.. But it means leaving VS Code for IDEA.