> guest languages eventually fade away I actually think Groovy sits a bit different to other JVM languages in this respect, because it never was at its core, p

> guest languages eventually fade away I actually think Groovy sits a bit different to other JVM languages in this respect, because it never was at its core, pitched as an alternative to Java (for a brief moment it was considered in that light, but that was mainly because Java itself became so stagnated). They aren't competing to be the same thing the way other JVM languages are - Groovy is trying to be a really good scripting language and Java is trying to be a really good application language. Similar to how Clojure will probably never be popular but it will probably also never go away.