> So I don't have to worry about Groovy dying off (which is not to say it is) Apache Groovy is dying off. Whenever some software product bundles it as a built-

> So I don't have to worry about Groovy dying off (which is not to say it is) Apache Groovy is dying off. Whenever some software product bundles it as a built-in scripting language, after a short time Groovy's snags become apparent and that software starts bundling another scripting solution, e.g. Kotlin for build scripts in Gradle [1], or the Declarative Pipeline Syntax for Jenkins [2]. [1] https://docs.gradle.org/5.0/userguide/kotlin_dsl.html https://docs.gradle.org/5.0/userguide/kotlin_dsl.html [2] https://jenkins.io/blog/2016/12/19/declarative-pipeline-beta/ https://jenkins.io/blog/2016/12/19/declarative-pipeline-beta...