Re:The Kotlin Foundation
by the_only_law on Saturday February 13, 2021 @03:55PM
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What ever happened to it? I recall Groovy and Grails being pretty big in the Java world several years ago.
The interest died off, JUGs stop talking about it and everyone went back to Java, while some of us got money to port those projects back to Java.
Had it not been for Gradle, and there would be hardly a reason to learn it in 2021, other than historical interest.
Where I work we use Groovy heavily for testing (with the Spock Framework - which is amazing), in our Jenkins pipelines, and for Gradle Plugins in our build.
I see a pretty active community around it and lots of new releases (from the libraries and the language itself) coming up all the time. Your picture of Groovy being dead couldn't be more wrong in my experience.
A programming language is alive as long as there is one developer using it, doesn't mean it still matters at scale.
As mentioned, Gradle is still around.
Gradle is moving more and more towards kotlin
The language that was supposed to replace Java in JEE and Spring.