News and views from the Groovy ecosystem. New Grails and Ratpack releases, and a release candidate for Gradle. Poll on JVM languages. Grails 3 quickcast and DSL blog post. Multiple blog posts by Sergio Del Amo and Mr. Haki. Plus a discount raffle for G3 Summit tickets.

Show notes: https://github.com/pledbrook/groovypodcast/blob/master/ep-36.md