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

Moving over to the Apache Software Foundation has been good for the Groovy language, with downloads more than doubling inside of six months. Orphaned by Pivotal in March, the dynamic language for ...

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 ...

Two weeks ago someone ran a poll on Hacker News asking what the readers’ favorite programming language was. Yesterday (April 5) I took a look back at the poll to see who came out on top. I wasn ...

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 ...

Programming languages: Why this former favourite is sliding down the rankings A web development favourite slides in popularity, but it's still a hugely popular programming language.

In the cutting-edge world of Silicon Valley, not only do developers have to learn the most popular programming languages, they also have to keep up with new ones. GitHub, which hosts open-source ...

JVM languages -- programming languages that run on the Java Virtual Machine (JVM), such as Kotlin, Clojure, Groovy and Scala -- are increasingly popular with software developers that seek Java-like ...

Programming languages continue to change. Here's what developers are using and which coding languages they want to learn.