18 engineers on Hacker News describe using Groovy first-hand: 5 endorse it, 3 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“We've done this with groovy and it's worked quiet well.”
endorse · production · cogman10 · 2025-06-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Had groovy scripts coming out of our build and deployment ears. shudder”
regret · production · Jenk · 2024-01-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We've had zero, absolutely zero issues with all the other stacks.”
endorse · production · brabel · 2022-07-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“now all Groovy provides us is the opportunity to experience new classes of bugs that we probably wouldn't see”
regret · production · 10 yr · tablespoon · 2021-05-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“our defect rate in production dropping by 90% (!!!) when we switched from Groovy to Scala”
regret · production · zoomerang · 2014-09-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I am most familiar with Groovy and it is much more than a simple scripting language.”
endorse · personal · jdbernard · 2012-09-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Groovy heavily for the past year and a half or so, and have been thrilled with it so far.”
endorse · production · 1.5 yr · mindcrime · 2011-12-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“What sold it to me was the fact that Groovy is a language very similar to Python”
endorse · production · 1.5 yr · pocoloco · 2010-12-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Groovy takes a bit to grok, sure, LLMs help a lot here.”
neutral · production · linsomniac · 2025-05-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we can write the logic in ”something other than groovy” - typescript in our case”
neutral · production · jordanbeiber · 2021-06-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We run bunch of groovy startup scripts that configure everything post launch.”
neutral · production · dominotw · 2017-12-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“it has support for Java, Scala and Groovy (which we are currently using)”
neutral · production · gazarullz · 2017-10-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Groovy for about a year now.”
neutral · personal · 1 yr · dmux · 2016-12-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“our Docker container building (Jenkins + custom Groovy)”
neutral · production · chrissnell · 2016-10-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We maintain legacy code that has been in production for more than 8 years and write new fully unit and integration-tested code in Groovy/Grails, Ruby/Rails, Java, and Angular.”
neutral · production · throwway222 · 2014-12-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“There are plugins, which let you script PyCharm with Groovy or Clojure, which I installed”
neutral · personal · klibertp · 2014-09-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“In using Groovy for web development, checkout our product”
neutral · production · Edmond · 2013-11-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?