Originally posted by Chris Patti:
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.