In Germany there was a Groovy craziness in JUGs around 2010, mostly coupled to Grails projects. At JSF days in Austria Oracle guys were discussing adding first class support for writing JSF applications with Groovy.
Fast forward to 2014, in our consulting projects when Groovy skills are requested, they usually mean that developer needs to take care of Gradle scripts.
In Germany there was a Groovy craziness in JUGs around 2010, mostly coupled to Grails projects. At JSF days in Austria Oracle guys were discussing adding first class support for writing JSF applications with Groovy.
Fast forward to 2014, in our consulting projects when Groovy skills are requested, they usually mean that developer needs to take care of Gradle scripts.