Groovy continues to slowly but surely grapple its way towards becoming a mainstream programming language - reflected in the latest TIOBE Index, where, for the first time, it’s just clawed its way into the top twenty most frequently searched for languages on the web.

[jaxenter.com] (http://jaxenter.com/groovy-makes-debut-entry-into-programming-language-top-twenty-48460.html)

I don't see many news or articles about Groovy on the past years. It used to be a thriving ecosystem with Grails, Griffon, Ratpack and many applications like Gradle or Jenkins using it on it's underpinnings. It used to be the most popular language besides Java on the JVM.

Nowadays I don't see many references to the language. Is it just me or are we actually seeing a decline in language user base?

I'm aware of sooo many languages, and somehow this escaped me until recently. Why does nobody talk about Groovy? You get the power of Python on the JVM with access to all Java's libraries and a ton of solid native groovy libraries. My only complaint so far is the name. It's also odd that it is ranked so highly in the TIOBE with no hype. I've heard plenty on Clojure and Scala. Maybe I'm just not in the target demographic. Thoughts?

I'm seriously not trolling anyone. The only reason I need to use groovy is for gradle (I don't like Kotlin either).

Hello, everyone!

In case you haven't heard, ApacheCon 2020 takes place on the Internet (an online event) and it is free for everyone. Paul King (Groovy lead) moderates the Groovy track and he created an interesting agenda you can find here:

https://www.apachecon.com/acah2020/tracks/groovy.html

An event takes place from September 29th to October 1st. You can register for free and participate in the interesting Groovy talks and Groovy hackathon :-)