The decline of Groovy?
(written by Lawrence Krubner, however indented passages are often quotes)
A year ago I spent some time playing around with Groovy. I really like the language. If I suddenly had to do some JVM work, I would certainly consider Groovy. I’ve only done trivially things with it, but I like it. So I am pained to think it is failing:
SourceEventually developers built Groovy-based products, such as Gant, Gradle, Griffon and Groovy++. So in late 2009 the despots at Codehaus created a new brand, the “Gr8 family of products”, consisting of Groovy, Grails, Griffon, Gradle, and 4 empty slots. Their advertising never mentions Gant or Groovy++. By choosing a fixed number, the brand controllers are asserting a limited membership in the Gr8 product league, a common game-theory technique to maintain control over the supply. Gradle and Griffon are in, Gant and Groovy++ are out. In fact Guillaume has written Gaelyk, really just a small module for Groovy, but has branded it as a separate standalone product and included it in Gr8. Nothing like two voting rights in the league. The Groovy language community is a tightly-run cathedral posing as a bazaar, and anyone who doesn’t toe the line is out. That’s the third reason for Groovy’s fall.
In fact, they’re lucky if they’re not harrassed. In 2006 I started writing documentation for newbies to Groovy, naively expecting to slowly work my way into the Groovy Language community. Instead, I endured almost three years of cold-shouldering, warnings and death threats, an email account breakin, FUD spread around here about doing any IT business with me, and eventually someone from overseas paying to have surveillance installed in my apartment. Many developers eventually leave, such as John Wilson who hung on longer than most building Ng, while others get funding, such as Alex Tkachman to build Groovy++. The “Groovy/Grails community” is a veneer over a strict profit-based regime, another reason for Groovy’s eventual demise.
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