On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 7:45 PM, Joseph Gentle <jose...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Really? With the exception of google, I don't know of anyone who still
> uses GWT. The web is mostly moving to plain javascript. Amongst other
> things, a javascript web client would let us take the slow GWT
> compiles out of the edit-run loop. It would also run faster & be
> easier to optimize, it would let us use all the great frontend JS
> libraries that are around now and be more attractive to other
> developers. Oh, and it would dramatically reduce the client side JS
> download.
>
> This is just a data point, but the main project I'm working on at work
uses GWT, and other than the sometimes tedious compilation time, I was
under the impression that GWT was the only sane way to develop a complex
software (read: as dynamic and complex as a traditional desktop client)
that has to run on a variety of browsers. Note that I'm not a web dev, so
this impression could be wrong.
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Saludos,
Bruno González
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