> implemented as a Java 8 compiler plugin (extension point)

Interesting! I had not heard of these before:

http://techbitsfromsridhar.blogspot.com/2013/02/java-compiler-plug-ins-in-java-8-use.html

It looks like these compiler plugins use "com.sun" packages, and are
not a JSR, which AFAIK means no Eclipse IDE nor ecj support? What does
that mean for your GWT-free deferred binding proposal?

That aside, I think a GWT-free deferred binding API would be pretty
sexy. If one were starting GWT from scratch, I'd naively assert/agree
that the problems of "build-time codegen" and "transpiling .java to .js"
are orthogonal, and so should be tackled separately. Which would
ideally make both implementations smaller/simpler/better.

(IMO/in theory/lots of hand waving and disclaimers. Doing both has
obviously served GWT really well, so it is admittedly naive of me to
assert they could be separate steps without really flushing it out.)

Anyway, it's really exciting to see your contributions, Andres, your
write up was very good.

- Stephen

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