&gt; Groovy creator Guillaume Laforge blogged that, “an acquainted Groovy eye would immediately notice the inspiration the Swift designers took from Groovy.”<p>Guillaume Laforge is <i>NOT</i> the creator of the Groovy Language, James Strachan is. And Swift did not take inspiration from Groovy.<p>What else is inaccurate in the article? 6 months after it was written, Pivotal voted against Groovy&#x27;s diversion into static typing and Android development by retrenching Laforge and the programmer working on it.