Groovy is a programming language on the JVM http://groovy.codehaus.org/

Unfortunately, more attractive language to me, Groovy++ didn't get much traction.

Nowadays, Groovy seems to fading as well.

I'm starting out on Grails, do you suggest I shouldn't?

Our requirements are that whatever I choose must be Java-based, and have some nice framework.

Within those constraints, is there a good Grails replacement?

No, not at all. I meant in terms of hype and popularity. Otherwise, it seems quite solid to me, and they (Groovy and Grails) are in active development.

There is another interesting jvm language: http://gosu-lang.org/compare.html

Web framework for gosu: http://ronin-web.org/

But it is even less popular and I'm not sure if it even has an active community.

Gosu is the language developed by Guidewire, a major insurance software provider :) (I work in the insurance sector. I wish my company bought Guidewire).

But yeah, it's much smaller than Grails.

That is great. It shows you the value of the endorsement is really nil. Personally, I'm not as impressed with an endorsement unless it is from someone, who themselves is well respect, or holds a high position. The original concept was good, but it was a low lying fruit, perhaps it is time for some AI by Linked In to try and solve the problem.

"Hey erikj54, pg just endorsed you for "HN Commenting Skills" -- We'd like to ask you (5) questions regading HN commenting! in order to publish this endorsement to your profile:

1. Assuming you just created an account on HN and immediately see a comment you disagree with. Can you downvote this comment? [Y/N]

2. A YC Company just posted a job posting to HN, can you post why you are a perfect rock-ninja for the job as a comment? [Y/N]

3. Can a comment receive greater than -4 comment Karma? [Y/N]

4. Can you downvote a comment reply to your OP comment? [Y/N]

5. How important is being civil in HN threads [Very Important/Not Important]

---

This might work....

When I read that I imagined LinkedIn is refering to the groovy programming language http://groovy.codehaus.org/

Of course... that doesn't make a lot of sense for a personality trait either... It makes as much sense as describing someone as C++. Maybe I'm misunderstanding something here.

Groovy (or, less common, "Groovie" or "Groovey") is a slang colloquialism popular during the 1960s and 1970s. It is roughly synonymous with words such as "cool", "excellent", "fashionable", or "amazing", depending on context.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groovy

That this needs to be explained makes me feel old.

I suspect that it is a geographical-cultural thing, not an age-culture thing.

edit: for clarity

Old people have different cultures.

It's both.

Well, in my defense, I know what it means to be groovy and sorry if post made it seem otherwise. What I was misunderstanding was the fact that you can actually endorse personality traits on people since I have made a point of staying as far away from LinkedIn as possible. I thought that you were only able to endorse skills, and so when I saw they were endorsed for a personality trait I was a little confused and wondered if they meant that as a skill trait :)

I interpreted the OP as saying that the uncle endorsed "Groovy" as a skill (presumably the programming language), but probably thought it was a personality trait.

It's as if Dude from "The Big Lebowski" had LinkedIn endorsements:

[ Groovy ][ Chilled ][ Fights "The Man"]

Wikipedia is OK, but I don't think anything can explain Groovy as well as Simon & Garfunkel:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvlW4bEjB5A

This might help - http://youtu.be/mWBvcJAXwu4 (Simon & Garfunkel)

Perhaps an expert in Groove?

http://grv.microsoft.com/