Forwarded from the GWT group, so it's not lost in the middle of support questions. Link to the topic (there's some feedback there as well): https://groups.google.com/d/topic/google-web-toolkit/Ll0W3Ui1CAI/discussion
On Friday, October 25, 2013 4:50:38 PM UTC+2, Andy wrote: > > I just read through the notes from the GWT steering > committee<https://groups.google.com/d/msg/gwt-steering/ldyo7OXUnHQ/ogtT-kPFoaoJ>and > would like to share our perspective. I know you have a lot of survey > results and we're just 1 company, but here's some more info based on our > needs. > > *Java 8 only* > > I would encourage and support this move. I've been writing a ton of > Javascript for the past few weeks and really miss the functional style when > I come back to Java. Lambdas in Java 8 are going to be powerful and fun and > they should be used liberally throughout the GWT 3.0 APIs. We won't be able > to move our backend to Java 8 for a while, but since we only ship the JS > output of the GWT compiler, I'm happy to use Java 8 for front-end > development. > > *Dropping IE 8/9* > * > * > We just decided on Tuesday to drop IE7 with our next release. We got tired > of working around hasLayout bugs, etc. We have several major customers that > still have users with XP/IE7, but after consulting with them, we decided we > could go ahead with dropping support. Unfortunately, many of our customers > are using IE8 and we won't be able to drop IE 8/9 anytime soon. As a > developer this is extremely frustrating, but it's the sad reality of the > enterprise. > > So Java 8 would be awesome, but dropping support for IE 8/9 would prevent > us from being about to use GWT 3.0 until our enterprise customers upgrade > their browsers. > -- http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit-Contributors --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GWT Contributors" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
