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Groovy had Netbeans and Eclipse support, which was dropped when it started fading away.I know, I've used it. What I said is that it did not have the first class IDE attention of a major vendor, those were mostly third party sub-par plugins compared to the Java focus of those IDEs. For Kotlin, however, it was first class IDE support as a primary concern from the start.
>We move in different worlds, no InteliJ installations around here.
Then we indeed move in different worlds.
>Popularity doesn't write software.
No, its just the only thing that matters when it comes to get paid for it.