2009/10/1 Maxime Lévesque <maxime.leves...@gmail.com> > Has there ever been discussions about supporting scala ? >
There have been some water cooler discussions about it, but it seemed like there were too many tasks left to do to make Java-based GWT everything we want it to be to undertake such a project. People have used Scala on the server with App Engine, if that is of interest. > I assume that significant part of your java->javascript translater > could be resused, and the fact that scala lives in the JVM would > certainly help. > That would help for Development Mode (previously called Hosted Mode), but doesn't really matter for compiling. > What kind of effort would it take ? > We already build our own Java AST from the JDT AST, so the primary things would be: - wire up a Scala compiler - maybe have to do something for Java interop since we wouldn't necessarily have class files for dependencies at the time of compilation - generate AST nodes from the Scala compiler - update code generation passes to account for new AST nodes or new uses of existing ones - probably minor modifications to Development Mode to know how to generate bytecode on demand for Scala -- John A. Tamplin Software Engineer (GWT), Google --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit-Contributors -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
