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I guess that's why they just lost their commercial sponsors recently.

• amyjess 11y ago
  Popularity != quality. Or would you argue that Honey Boo Boo was the best show on television?
  • justthistime_ 11y ago
    No, but if even technically illiterate managers lose their hope in a product that says something. Groovy devs have been unable to keep up with cleanups, improvements and requirements since years. There is just no point in using the language. Everything it could do is done better elsewhere.
  • vorg 11y ago
    > I would argue that Groovy is Scala done right The creator of Groovy, James Strachan, said 6 yrs afterwards that if he'd known about Scala at the time, he'd never have created Groovy, so he's arguing the exact opposite viewpoint. > Popularity != quality The recent blog by Jochen Theodorou, the tech talent that practically built and maintained Groovy for 10 yrs, at http://blackdragsview.blogspot.com/2015/04/about-being-paid-oss-developer-for.html http://blackdragsview.blogspot.com/2015/04/about-being-paid-... says about Groovy's quality... > G2One management adding feature after feature without testing or documentation ...and identifies that G2One (SpringSource, Pivotal) management as... > all of the paid Groovy guys... Cedric (developer), Guillaume (manager and evangelist) and me (developer) had to leave Pivotal Groovy has two use cases: * scripting Java (tests, Gradle scripts) * providing a M.O.P. for Grails If you want to actually build a system on the JVM or Android, use Java or Scala or some language created specifically for that purpose. Groovy was built as a dynamically typed language, with static typing features shunted on much later, and hardly anyone uses them. Groovy's for quick and dirty scripts, like those 30-line Gradle build scripts (unless you need readable stack traces then you're out of luck).