Well, the fact that I can't recall ANY Groovy core developer answering a comment on HN ever, also speaks volumes. Or even some devoted Groovy contributor.
To be fair, which languages do have their core developers posting here, and especially on a regular basis? Maybe I just don't pay enough attention, but I don't really recall that many. Walter Bright is the primary name that jumps to mind, and I'm actually having trouble coming up with many others.
Well, I've seen contributors and core team people from .NET (and Azure), Java, Go, Rust, Arc (well, duh), Haskell, Clojure, Julia, Coffeescript and lots of other languages...
Some of them on a regular basis (Rust and Go people especially), others frequently pop up when their languages are discussed.
OK, now that you mention it, I do recall the Rust folks. Some of the others I don't remember, but I'm sure you're right. I probably just don't pay enough attention to that sort of thing. :-)
Well, I as Groovy Core don't follow hacker news normally. There are already enough channels for me to follow and the density of Groovy related themes has been quite low here. It as a thing of trying to spend the little time I have with something useful and being effective about it. So if I answer here, then only because someone pointed me to it and then it is more to try to fight misinformation and FUD
They are mostly Europeans and it is late Saturday night, so I'd cut them some slack. I'll post on Twitter and see if they can respond when the wake up on Sunday.
Two of the despots posted something under their own names 2 yrs ago. I think, though, that one of the Pivotal employees frequently posts under various different usernames.
Guess I am one of the ones from 2 yrs ago, even though I am not aware this has already been 2 yrs. I thought last time was already last year... well, I can be easily mistaken. But I really wonder what those Pivotal accounts are supposed to be. Could be a reason to talk with some people if I had details
Most users on Hacker News use pseudonyms to better avoid the problems possible with having an online presence anywhere, though not all of us can be bothered. I suspect one regular commenter here, though, is associated with the Groovy/Grails developers at Pivotal.
