On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 10:55 AM Rob Newton <robn10...@gmail.com> wrote:

> A contributor may develop something new or port something, and then
> announce it to the community that it is available for use, but there is no
> central site listing/promoting these wares.
>

A central place would be nice and has been tried before but it takes a lot
of effort to establish it and keep it going.

> Perhaps things are in too much flux to attract new developers to using
> GWT.  Perhaps the goal should be to retain existing GWT users?  The more
> users there are, the more contributors there will be, and the better GWT
> will be for all of us.  Conversely, the fewer users there are, ... .
>

I think that is the point porting the GWT2.x modules to jsinterop. To help
retain existing users.

There is also a lot of companies that have abandoned all of those framework
libraries and just use jsinterop and java to js compiler. Vue-GWT seems
successful. We use react+GWT and find it invaluable. I think all of googles
stuff probably does this.


> (It's easy for me (a non-contributor) to list some shortcomings, but am I
> going to volunteer my personal time to improve things?  Or do I expect
> Google to do everything, and I just use it and give nothing back?)
>

I don't think Google is really responsible. I expect that in time that the
jre layer + jsinterop library will probably move out of GWT and into their
own repositories so they can be more easily used by J2CL (googles
replacement java-to-js compiler) at which point I am not sure how much work
will go on in the current GWT repo. However I expect work in the
elemental2, j2cl and other repos to continue.

-- 
Cheers,

Peter Donald

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