Hey,

Thought I would move this to gwt-contrib; during a compiler
improvements discussion in the last steering committee meeting, the
concept of having a dev mode run incrementally in Eclipse came up (e.g.
on save, reuses the existing AST), and Ray made a side comment
describing it as a "moonshot", which is I think is an apt description:
it's a big, hairy change, but with a huge payoff.

I've been mulling this for awhile, and so have some notes here:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CQpfpsYq5Tf-oeDmwp9ETI9qNNt1ABIqu-N18nxTt9g/edit#heading=h.x1h3hdf7ui8l

If anyone wants to discuss it here (preferable) or in the doc, please
feel free.

I am likely being naive in thinking this won't be *that* hard (I don't
think it's anything fundamentally new, just moving things around and
applying a heavy refactoring hand), but there are a few things that
would make this a "v3.0" change and likely require changes to user code
(not widget APIs/JSNI/etc., but things like super sourcing).

But IMO, in the long term, e.g. if you want to be using GWT in 3-5
years (like I very much do), and restore some of it's luster/sexiness,
I think now is a good time to make this investment.

- Stephen

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