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by vorg 3917 days ago
Groovy's always been good from the very beginning for quick and dirty Java class manipulation, such as test scripts. It found use in Grails when they added a MOP to simulate Rails's ActiveRecord, but Grails is declining quickly -- people aren't starting new projects with it or upgrading to Grails 3.x. Gradle provides it as a configuration language but its typical use is for 30-line build scripts using the declarative DSL only, not the actual language. Gradleware no longer mentions Groovy in any of their promotional blog posts and announcements about Gradle -- it's like they're embarrassed of it -- so I suspect there's changes coming soon in that area.