I posted this in the gwt group, but I think this is a better place. http://www.thoughtworks.com/articles/technology-radar-july-2011#Platforms
thoughtworks technology radar july 2011, talk negatively about gwt, these are the 3 reasons: "First, in many ways, JavaScript is more powerful and expressive than Java, so we suspect that the generation is going in the wrong direction." more powerfull for that? "Secondly, it is impossible to hide a complex abstraction difference like that from event-driven desktop to stateless-web without leaky abstraction headaches eventually popping up" I can't comment, I do not know the compilation process. "Third, it suffers from the same shortcomings of many elaborate frameworks, where building simple, aligned applications is quick and easy, building more sophisticated but not supported functionality is possible but difficult, and building the level of sophistication required by any non-trivial application becomes either impossible or so difficult it isn’t reasonable." What is meant by functionality not supported?. Program non-trivial applications with GWT is easier than directly in javascript. What do you think? -- http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit-Contributors
