&gt; Glad to see Groovy rising<p>If Groovy&#x27;s rise was slow but steady, it would be good. But this latest rise is more a case of extreme volatility for Groovy in the TIOBE rankings. It went from #82 to #17 in a mere 12 months.<p>The last time Groovy made the top 20, it hit #18 in Oct 2013, but 3 months later (Jan 2014), had dropped back out of the top 50 (#32 in Nov, #46 in Dec). TIOBE said the following month &quot;The data is produced by one of the sites that we track is interpreted incorrectly by our algorithms. After we fixed this bug, Groovy lost much of its ratings.&quot; [1] Just before that fix happened, interviews with the current Apache spokesperson for Groovy (Guillaume Laforge) promoting Groovy&#x27;s top 20 position were published in 5 online rags (www.infoworld.com, www.eweek.com, cacm.acm.org, jaxenter.com, and glaforge.appspot.com), and all of them quickly appeared in Google&#x27;s top 30 search results for &quot;groovy programming&quot; and remained there for 6 to 12 months afterwards. I&#x27;m guessing the same feedback effect will be engineered again before the end of this month, and Groovy will again start losing its new top 20 ranking.<p>This rapid rise then fall also happened with Groovy in December 2010. Groovy began a sudden rise from outside the top 50 when Groovy tech lead Jochen Theodorou &quot;volunteered&quot; his services to Tiobe in late 2010 to help them improve their algorithms. Than in April 2011, Groovy fell from #25 to #65 on Tiobe <i>in a single month</i> after they increased the number of search engines they monitor.<p>These fleeting peaks for Groovy in the TIOBE rankings (#25 in Apr 2011, #18 in Oct 2013, #17 in Jan 2016) between its usual ranking of somewhere between #51 and #100 (e.g. #82 only 12 months ago) are a bad thing for Groovy because of damage to its reputation as a solid language suitable for long-term IT solutions. Such ranking volatility gives off the stench of search engine optimization, a smoke-and-mirrors marketing tactic intended to benefit a single stake-holder, probably the person who privately owns the groovy-lang.org DNS domain.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.infoworld.com&#x2F;t&#x2F;application-development&#x2F;c-pulls-away-java-among-top-programming-languages-230603" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.infoworld.com&#x2F;t&#x2F;application-development&#x2F;c-pulls-a...</a><p>&gt; it won&#x27;t be long long before golang breaks into the top 20<p>Unlike Groovy, Golang&#x27;s rise is slow but steady, with far more real users. Just compare the activity on reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;golang with that on reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;groovy and you&#x27;ll see the stark difference.