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 [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
