Thank you! That's exactly the kind of news I was hoping for. I do appreciate all the work that is put into GWT, and it has been a vital part of my software development for many years (and is in released products). The thing that has been concerning is simply the lack of news!
Thanks again. On 4 September 2015 at 10:07, Jens <[email protected]> wrote: > According to the last steering group meeting minutes, the release of 2.8 > is only waiting for JsInterop 1.0 to be finalized. The meeting minutes say > that this is expected to happen at the end of september. If this holds true > you will see a release relatively shortly after that. The lack of Java 8 > API emulations (java.time, streams, etc) is not considered a blocker and is > expected to be provided by contributors. I have already done some work on > that and together with Colin Alworth and James Nelson we plan to tackle > java.time and streams. But as we will work on that in our free time, > chances are that it will not be part of GWT 2.8 yet. > > So with a 2.8 release the worst thing you can get is Java 8 syntax > (lambdas, method references, default/static interface methods, intersection > casts), stable JsInterop annotations, better SDM, lots of bug fixes. In the > best case you also get some Java 8 API emulations. I guess there will be a > 2.8.1 shortly after with additional Java 8 API emulations. > > Also according to the meeting minutes the new GWT compiler is expected to > work at the end of the year. This would then act as the base for an > upcoming GWT 3.0 release. > > -- J. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/google-web-toolkit/8DE10EpCk48/unsubscribe > . > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GWT Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
