The Groovy programming language has broken into the top 20 of the TIOBE Index of most popular programming languages for the first time.

The new version of the Groovy programming language aims to make life easier for programmers who work with Java and SQL, the language’s developers note.

Using concepts such as mappers and message passing, in a manner reminiscent of the old, highly efficient concurrency programming language Erlang, Scala is finding ways around the problematic thread ...

Laforge also noted that Groovy is set to graduate from Apache Incubator project status. Though the language was already well-established, incubation is required of all new Apache projects.

Groovy sees a jump in popularity after years on the periphery of Tiobe's top 50 programming-language rankings.

Apache Groovy 5.0 brings compact source notations and Jakarta servlets The latest major release of the Apache programming language for the Java Virtual Machine offers numerous simplifications and ...

The one big move of note between Feb. 2021 and Feb. 2022 was with the Groovy programming language, an object-oriented language for Java. Over the course of the year, Groovy fell from 12th position ...