Okay so… what do we do? Should we all switch to the Grace Framework? I love Micronaut and all the work done by @graeme that’s where my heart goes, but it looks like Grails is too much linked to Spring Boot. Having both Spring and Micronaut makes sense only to accommodate a transition from one to the other as a base for Grails. Since OCI has stopped sponsoring this roadmap, from a business point of view it would be better to stay with Spring. Spring is the de-facto standard, widespread used and supported. The innovator side of me doesn’t like this way, but the business side of me has to take a decision. I like simplicity and to say the truth the Grace Framework with less dependencies goes that direction.. What’s your take on this?

As a someone who spent last years rewriting Grails applications to Micronaut I would suggest you to go the other way round and start extracting parts of the application to Spring. Although Micronaut is more modern and seems to make the base for the latest versions of Grails, it's still Spring Boot that is the cornerstone of Grails.

The thing is that I've built a framework on top of Grails (dueuno.com), so in my case the issue is "which" Grails to use: the official one (with no team) or the new one (Grace, with a team of one 🙂) I'm in the position now of starting to contribute, but the question remains. My professional/business preference goes with simple things over fancy ones. I personally feel taht the adoption of Micronaut (which I use and like for microservices) is a good thing, but ONLY if it substitutes Spring. I welcomed it along with Spring as a "transition", but the new scenario tells another story. So the question is: should I invest my time developing/promoting Grails, a project with no team wose later decisions I didnt feel went the "right" direction (my personal "right", of course) or go with Grace, the new project whose decisions I liked who has a team of 1 member. I don't want to affend/attack/favour anyone, so please, dear reader, try to read my messages as a way to "drop my cards on the table" to discuss.

I would say that JHipster is the closest thing to Grails in JVM world for the new project