I've been using Grails exclusively since version 0.42. That is a few years ago now, and I can tell you that it has been a few great years :-) One of the most i

I've been using Grails exclusively since version 0.42. That is a few years ago now, and I can tell you that it has been a few great years :-) One of the most impressive things is that there hardly have been any breaking changes since 0.42 to 2.5.0. Sure a lot of new things has been added, but most of the code I wrote around that time is still working. I have created several small projects and a few really big. People get really impressed with how much I can get done in a very short time thanks to a lot of the Grails "magic". And of course access to several great Java libraries helps. I really like Grails approach to the MVC design pattern, it's not so difficult to move away from it either and create something that solves a problem in a better way. Some projects I have made doesn't use GORM/Hibernate, but straight JDBC/Groovy SQL. And some of my projects mix GORM/Hibernate and Groovy SQL. I get the best of everything. The Grails documentation is great, and the mailing list has always been an interesting place to get new ideas to solve some specific problems. There is plenty of activity on stack overflow. Grails is an awesome and mature web development framework. It's sexy, agile and still has the wow factor even after several years.