Are other source languages than Java taken into account for GWT 3.0? Is Jribble considered?
- Andrés Testi El viernes, 25 de octubre de 2013 13:18:52 UTC-3, Thomas Broyer escribió: > > 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 google-web-toolkit-contributors+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
