It was common at local JUGs almost 10 years ago, when there was lot of hype around Groovy and Grails.
Even at JSF Days 2007 there were some talks about adding Groovy support to JEE as a means to write session and entity beans.
Nowadays Gradle is the only thing keeping Groovy from completely fading away.
That and Grails maintenance projects.
It was common at local JUGs almost 10 years ago, when there was lot of hype around Groovy and Grails.
Even at JSF Days 2007 there were some talks about adding Groovy support to JEE as a means to write session and entity beans.
Nowadays Gradle is the only thing keeping Groovy from completely fading away.
That and Grails maintenance projects.