Originally posted by Josh Brown:
If NetBeans is any indication, I'd say Sun isn't investing very heavily in Groovy. The Groovy plugin for NetBeans is nowhere near as good as the Groovy plugin for Eclipse. To me, this would indicate that Sun isn't pushing Groovy very hard, as IDE support is a huge contributor to a language's success these days.
[ April 09, 2008: Message edited by: Josh Brown ]
In a relatively recent episode of the
Java Posse podcast, Tor Norby, one of the Netbeans team's heavy hitters, mentioned that Sun had not been focusing resources on Groovy support because other IDEs have already 'cornered that market' (I'm paraphrasing, perhaps even poorly, but that's the idea).
To be fair though, I don't think this means that Sun doesn't support Groovy. Rather, IMO it means that Sun simply doesn't feel it's profitable or smart to devote developer resources to enhancing Netbeans groovy support when IntelliJ and others are already doing a lot in that area elsewhere.