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

Groovy was the only language used for writing scripts on Jenkins, which Jansen describes as having been “the only real player in the CI/CD domain” early on.

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.

While the Groovy language registered only a minuscule number in this month’s Tiobe index of programming language popularity, it nonetheless broke into the list’s top 20 languages for the first ...

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