Groovy rose from below #50 to #18 in a mere 6 months (May to Oct) on the infamous Tiobe index, then dropped back down a month later. According to [1]: > Groovy

Groovy rose from below #50 to #18 in a mere 6 months (May to Oct) on the infamous Tiobe index, then dropped back down a month later. According to [1]: > Groovy, which turned up in the [Tiobe] 18th spot last month, slid back down to a number 32 ranking. "After a long discussion with one of the Tiobe index readers, it turned out that the data that is produced by one of the Chinese sites that we track is interpreted incorrectly by our algorithms. So this was a bug," Janssen said. "After we had fixed this bug, Groovy lost much of its ratings." The ratings slip takes Groovy from a 0.658 percent rating last month to 0.393 percent this month. I suspect someone at Pivotal, Inc has been gaming one of the search engines used by the Tiobe Index to promote Groovy in preparation for this release, and didn't expect to be caught out for at least another month. This has happened before. In April 2011, Groovy fell from #25 to #65 in a single month when something similar occurred. In December 2010, Groovy tech lead Jochen Theodorou had "volunteered" his services to Tiobe to help them improve their algorithms, after which Groovy began its short-lived rise. Groovy really should focus more on features that help developers rather than search engine optimization. [1] http://www.infoworld.com/t/application-development/c-pulls-away-java-among-top-programming-languages-230603 http://www.infoworld.com/t/application-development/c-pulls-a...