w00t!!!
Sounds like a great subject for a blog post!
> On Jan 7, 2016, at 5:21 PM, Guillaume Laforge <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi again,
>
> As the year ended, I collected the latest download figures from Maven Central
> and Bintray.
>
> In 2015, Apache Groovy's been downloaded 12.7 million times!
>
> With about 8 millions from Maven Central and 4.7 millions from Bintray.
> Historically, Central represented the biggest chunk, but interestingly, for
> the last quarter, the downloads are even between the two.
>
> The total figure above doesn't account for the first quarter numbers from
> Codehaus, as Codehaus is no more and I didn't have access to the latest
> figures there.
> And with Apache, you can also download Groovy from dozens of mirrors
> worldwide, and I don't think we can have a consolidated access to those
> numbers either AFAIK.
>
> For reference, from memory, we had 4.5 million downloads in 2014, 3 millions
> in 2013, and 1.7 million in 2012. So that's a big increase!
> Clearly, the move to the Apache Software Foundation seems to have sparked the
> interest of new Groovy developers.
>
> Let's make 2016 another Groovy year for you all!
>
> Guillaume
>
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> Guillaume Laforge
> Apache Groovy committer & PMC chair
> Product Ninja & Advocate at Restlet
>
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