I want to thank Guillaume Laforge for this adventure. Man, you gave me the opportunity to join the project, its awesome community. You gave me a job, I was lucky enough to be paid to work on open-source software, and that’s all because of you. For that I owe you everything, thank you!

Second, thanks to Paul King. You are the one that the Groovy community should never loose. People have mentioned that I would be a great loss, but that’s not true: the reality is that I contributed almost nothing recently, and you did all the hard work. You are also an amazing person always trying to get the best of us. I will miss it.

Then Jochen Theodorou: thanks to you for all the hard work you’ve done with the compiler. I would not have been able to write the static compiler without your help and insights on the internals of Groovy.

I’d also would like to personally thank folks that make the community vibrant: Søren Berg Glasius, Graeme Rocher, Jeff Scott Brown, Iván López, Álvaro Sánchez and all the others I miss, don’t take it personally, this is not easy for me.

Last but not least, thank you to the Groovy community. You’ve been awesome, and I wouldn’t be where I am without you. I may have been a bit sharp saying that the Groovy community as a whole sees me as a Trojan horse, that’s not true, but the truth is that I don’t want to fight anymore. Do not assume that because I quit the community is toxic: it’s not. There’s just a lot of understandable fear for the future, in my opinion. My advice is, embrace the change, don’t look back, and take inspiration.

I want to say good luck to the team, in particular to its newer members, like Daniel Sun, who are the future of this language: they have the energy, the skills to make it better.