On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 12:10 PM, Lex Spoon <[email protected]> wrote: > This plan has the huge advantage that everything in the chain is under > our control. The Scala compiler could generate this language, and GWT > could read it. > > Also, per John's comments about decompiling Java, note that we could > plan to update this language to support more source languages than > just Java. It should be much easier for them to emit what they mean > than for GWT to reverse engineer what their bytecode intended. >
Why would that be easier than just parsing Scala and building an extended GWT AST from the Scala AST? It seems like inventing a new language (even if it is close to Java) and modifying tools on both sides to use this would be more work. -- John A. Tamplin Software Engineer (GWT), Google --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit-Contributors -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
