> We moved the Groovy project to the Apache Foundation as a message to the community to say that the community and ecosystem matter the most<p>You moved it to Apache because all the three staff working on Groovy were retrenched from Pivotal,Inc.<p>> we started to support Android. even large companies like the New York Times started to use Groovy to build their Android mobile apps<p>You're mixing up the functions of Groovy for build scripts in Gradle and as a systems languages targeting Android.