Groovy was not snubbed
Every couple of weeks it seems, there is another article telling us that Sun is ignoring Groovy, trying to kill CRuby, and drivel like that. Yes, Sun did hire the JRuby guys and is going after some converts. RoR was big in 2006 and if hiring the JRuby guys opens another path to Java, then by all means do it. Java has always been about choice, this is alot of room for more than one scripting language. Hindsight being 20/20, I'm kind of glad Groovy was left to grow organically on its own. Groovy was allowed to find its way and slightly morph itself without breaking lots of software based on an older version. I also think we are very fickle, had the Groovy devs been hired at the same time as the JRuby guys, they would have been compared more so than they are now and Groovy would have been eclipsed. With the release of Groovy in Action and The Definitive Grails Guide, 2007 will be the year of Groovy. Your project doesn't truly exist until there is a book on it.