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

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.

The new version of the Groovy programming language aims to make life easier for programmers who work with Java and SQL, the language’s developers note.

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 ...