(14) Is Groovy going away? - Quora
Groovy is definitely not going away anytime soon, fortunately.
We have a pretty active team of committers and contributors working on Groovy, delivering regular releases, helping users on the mailing-lists, and so on.
VMware recently increased its involvement by letting us hire another full time Groovy developer, and we also have an Eclipse team working on the support in the IDE.
So in terms resources (committers, contributors, etc), the project is very well sane, and in terms of activity, the project is keeping on progressing and improving release after release, delivering new features, etc.
Furthermore, the ecosystem around Groovy has increased significantly the past few years thanks to the success of projects like the Gradle build automation tool, the Spock testing framework, the Griffon framework for rich desktop apps, and the list goes on (including the very prominent Grails web framework).
It's funny how those famous words from the original founder James Strachan resonate. James was involved in the first two years essentially, and then worked on other projects. I stepped up and took the lead on the project 6-7 years ago. If you think about that statement he made (which is used by the scala-fanboys against Groovy), and try to put it in perspective, it doesn't make much sense:
Imagine that something like JPA in its current state had existed 10 years ago: do you think the Hibernate guys would have created Hibernate? Most probably not. But it doesn't make Hibernate less valuable, not worth investigating, or deemed to be going away.
That's the same story with Groovy and Scala if you will. Both have their sweet spots certainly. It's not because the original creator left the Groovy project, and then years later started enjoying Scala, that it means that Groovy is going away or anything of that sort.
Groovy and Scala have their respective sweet spots. But I think Groovy is much easier to get started for Java developers, for example. It's been used in various mission critical settings, and is very successful and much appreciated by its vast user population (about half a million developers).
We have a pretty active team of committers and contributors working on Groovy, delivering regular releases, helping users on the mailing-lists, and so on.
VMware recently increased its involvement by letting us hire another full time Groovy developer, and we also have an Eclipse team working on the support in the IDE.
So in terms resources (committers, contributors, etc), the project is very well sane, and in terms of activity, the project is keeping on progressing and improving release after release, delivering new features, etc.
Furthermore, the ecosystem around Groovy has increased significantly the past few years thanks to the success of projects like the Gradle build automation tool, the Spock testing framework, the Griffon framework for rich desktop apps, and the list goes on (including the very prominent Grails web framework).
It's funny how those famous words from the original founder James Strachan resonate. James was involved in the first two years essentially, and then worked on other projects. I stepped up and took the lead on the project 6-7 years ago. If you think about that statement he made (which is used by the scala-fanboys against Groovy), and try to put it in perspective, it doesn't make much sense:
Imagine that something like JPA in its current state had existed 10 years ago: do you think the Hibernate guys would have created Hibernate? Most probably not. But it doesn't make Hibernate less valuable, not worth investigating, or deemed to be going away.
That's the same story with Groovy and Scala if you will. Both have their sweet spots certainly. It's not because the original creator left the Groovy project, and then years later started enjoying Scala, that it means that Groovy is going away or anything of that sort.
Groovy and Scala have their respective sweet spots. But I think Groovy is much easier to get started for Java developers, for example. It's been used in various mission critical settings, and is very successful and much appreciated by its vast user population (about half a million developers).
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