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@gaeton: 
&gt;No, it doesn’t have to be mentioned elsewhere and to promote bad buzz. It’s just good to know.

Yepp, not my intention to promote bad buzz, too. Groovy was my main programming language for the last 8 years. It's good to know about the download numbers, marketing for programming languages, consulting and the Apache incubator process, although I don't have an exact picture about this all.

I found some longer articles from 2005 by the blog author (Gavin Groover) on IBM sites. What I actually wanted to see is, how much of Groovy's syntax/vision was finalized in the past, and it turns out, that in 2005 the syntax was pretty much what it looks today. I always wondered what went wrong with Groovy and caused the low adaptation rate (in comparison to Java). Maybe Strachan's initial vision from 2003 of Groovy (<http://radio-weblogs.com/0112098/2003/08/29.html#a399>) (my interpretation: a language to be very close to Java and that allows to be dynamically typed). There is much more to read in the Tumblr blog and maybe it's a nice history lesson, from the perspective of one person.

That said, Kotlin is the future and the way it is designed differs a lot from Groovy (especially with the focus on statically typing), so that we don't have to worry.