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7 months ago, Groovy wasn't even in Tiobe's top 50. Two months ago (Oct 2013), it had reached #18. This month, it's back down to #46. The person who pulled off that trick didn't forget Groovy, and in fact utilized the feedback effect to keep the afterglow going. Just type "Groovy Programming" into Google and see some of the links...

5. www.infoworld.com Groovy breaks into top 20 list of programming languages

8. www.eweek.com Groovy Programming Language Sees Major Boost in Popularity

22. cacm.acm.org Groovy Programming Language Sees Major Boost in Popularity

24. jaxenter.com Groovy makes debut entry into programming language top twenty

30. glaforge.appspot.com Interview about Groovy's popularity boost -- Guillaume Laforge's Blog

But Groovy's "surge in popularity" was probably timed to coincide with a due diligence investigation on Pivotal Inc, or someone there selling a consulting contract.

"After a long discussion with one of the Tiobe index readers, it turned out that the data that is produced by one of the Chinese sites that we track is interpreted incorrectly by our algorithms. So this was a bug," Janssen said. "After we had fixed this bug, Groovy lost much of its ratings." http://www.infoworld.com/t/application-development/c-pulls-a...