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> Enterprisey J2EE people regard it as a new fangled something they don't have time for.

Back when I was part of a project that was developing a JSF framework on top of RichFaces, I started pushing for Groovy support on our SDK.

This was 2009, Groovy was everywhere on JUG talks in Germany, most talking about Grails success stories. On the same year while attending JSF Days in Austria there were some Oracle guys showing how to do JSF applications in Groovy and the possible inclusion the the next J2EE revision.

Other team on the same company was replacing the Perl battle tested installation scripts by Groovy ones.

Nowadays, if it wasn't for Android Studio and its dependency on Gradle, I would hardly notice its use.

[narrator]

Groovy's problem is that it's very slow compared to Java. http://java.dzone.com/articles/java-7-vs-groovy-21