In my customer base (mostly Australian Financial and Govt Java shops) my perception of Groovy usage compared to other non-Java JVM languages is that 12 months ago Groovy was sitting around 66% (2/3) usage compared to 33% (1/3) for everything else. I think this has probably increased to over 80% at the moment and is still growing. So, I think it has been going well.
Disclaimer: I have no hard numbers to back this up and I'll be the first to admit that it is highly likely that customers with a leaning towards Groovy and I are probably likely to attract one another. Others could quite easily see quite different numbers. Also, I am not saying that there hasn't been huge interest in the other languages - there has been huge interest as there should be. It just hasn't reflected in widespread production use yet for the projects my teams are involved in. Finally, I am not saying that Groovy is a perfect language. It has many areas which can still improve significantly on and hopefully will over the coming releases. Just my 2c. Paul. On Jan 6, 10:56 am, Dick Wall <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Folks > > I wanted to assure people that I love the Groovy, I really do, and I > like Guillaume, Graeme et al tremendously. > > We actually had quite a few news items for Groovy in 2008 (just search > for groovy or grails in the search box on the javaposse.com site to > see). However, I feel that there were quite a small number of news > items to actually report on and this is what I was trying to > communicate in the episode. It's always good to see big news items > like "company X is writing its new super-web-app using grails" - and I > think there was one of those during the year, but it just felt to me > that not many crossed my news filter, which I like to think is a > fairly unbiased way of assessing the ebb and flow of the industry (I > try to keep the feed selection broad and include digg searches and > other things like that). > > I hope that a 1.6 or 2.0 release will get a bit more notice for Groovy > going again, and I certainly didn't mean to alienate any one. From the > comment by Vince O'Sullivan on this topic, I am not the only one that > feels like it might be slipping away. I say these things with love, > honestly. My perfect future has Scala and Groovy as the modern > language options on the JVM. > > Cheers > > Dick > > On Jan 5, 3:37 pm, greggobridges <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 1)The whiteboards at Devoxx (http://www.jroller.com/scolebourne/entry/ > > devoxx_2008_whiteboard_votes) declared that groovy was the most > > popular JVM language that is not Java (37%, compared to 22% for scala > > and 10% for jruby). It's not scientific, but it's worth something. > > 2)Groovy had 74,000 downloads in November 2008 (I don't have scala's > > november numbers, but it comes to less than 3,000 for December 2008). > > 3)Groovy was recently acquired by SpringSource > > 4)Take a look at a session list from the 'No Fluff Just Stuff' tour > > and tell me that Groovy is not gaining momentum. > > > The Posse said that there was not much groovy news. The only news that > > was reported on the podcast was the aforementioned acquisition, as > > well as the December release of v1.5.1 (reported in January); however, > > groovy is now at 1.5.7 with a RC for 1.6 available. The eclipse groovy > > plugin was updated, and netbeans added groovy support in 6.5 (not > > reported in the news, but by Tor as an aside in the Holiday podcast). > > > As a Groovy user, in 2008 I felt like the Scala Posse's redheaded > > little brother <smack!>. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
