[coldtea]

>Groovy had Netbeans and Eclipse support, which was dropped when it started fading away.

I know, I've used it. What I said is that it did not have the first class IDE attention of a major vendor, those were mostly third party sub-par plugins compared to the Java focus of those IDEs. For Kotlin, however, it was first class IDE support as a primary concern from the start.

>We move in different worlds, no InteliJ installations around here.

Then we indeed move in different worlds.

>Popularity doesn't write software.

No, its just the only thing that matters when it comes to get paid for it.

[pjmlp]

Delivering working software as per customer's RFP is what matters, everything else is fluff.