I've got a horrible Betamax feeling but I really can't face going back to the "cool kids" framework of the month.
On Saturday, November 7, 2015 at 5:31:00 AM UTC, steve Zara wrote: > > I'm at a loss to understand why the current page of examples contains > links to videos from the LAST DECADE. > > I'm a huge fan of GWT. It forms the main part of my current development. > But right now GWT 2.8.0 is turning into the "Duke Nukem Forever" of > frameworks. At this rate GWT 3.0 won't be out before I have retired. > > I just don't understand why. There were surely plenty of possible GWT > 2.7.x releases, such as the use of lambdas. I'm also mystified as to why > there is any current talk of GWT 3.0 when GWT 2.8.0 has still not been > released a year after GWT 2.7.0. > > Seriously - what is going on with GWT? Why the lack of publicity? Why > the secrecy? If there really are problems, is it time for a fork of GWT in > which there can be visible progress? > > On 7 November 2015 at 00:05, Andrei Volgin <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> I've been using GWT for years. Obviously, I am a little biased, but I >> love GWT. I am totally fine with using more native JS and in general with >> the direction the steering committee is taking. I am much more concerned >> with the marketing effort behind GWT. Success of any open source technology >> depends on the size and vibrancy of its community. In other words, we >> should be all concerned with attracting more developers to the platform. I >> am going my part - I answered more questions on SO tagged with GWT than >> anyone not named Thomas Broyer :) And while support for existing >> developers is important, it's equally important to recruit more >> developers/teams who are starting new projects. >> >> http://www.gwtproject.org/ was a step in the right direction. I think, >> however, that we need to add a list of prominent projects using GWT and a >> showcase of apps created with GWT. Showcase of widgets is fine, but many >> developers may not realize that GWT in no way limits creativity or design >> possibilities. I am proud, for example, to showcase my latest project: >> >> https://www.angelslikerebels.com/#Discover: >> >> This is pure GWT/MGWT - no third party widgets. You can see how the UI >> changes on phones compared to desktop, with minimal extra code. Scrolling >> behavior was a major PIA, but that's a topic for another post. >> >> I am sure there are many beautiful apps built with pure GWT or a >> combination of GWT and other UI frameworks. We should put them on a webpage >> page, which every developer can point to the next time his or her >> boss/client/co-worker asks what can be done with GWT. Anything can be done >> with GWT! And it may look any way you like it. >> >> Andrei Volgin >> Angels Like Rebels, Inc. >> President & CTO >> >> >> >> On Thursday, September 3, 2015 at 10:39:11 PM UTC-4, steve Zara wrote: >>> >>> Although I have major projects in development using GWT, I'm concerned >>> for its future, and I need to make decisions about which technologies to >>> use for new development. The reason for my concern is that after years of >>> updates to GWT and reports of new technologies, 2015 has been quiet. The >>> official release of GWT 2.8.0, the release would provide for GWT developers >>> the long-awaited syntax and libraries of Java 8, seems to have been >>> postponed indefinitely, with no reports as to when it's likely to appear. >>> There's certainly no sign of GWT 3.0, which was discussed at GWT.create >>> 2015. >>> >>> GWT seems to have lost visibility at major forums for software >>> development, such as InfoQ, instead, the talk is of native JavaScript, >>> ClojureScript and Scala.js. If GWT is no longer going to be providing a >>> way to use modern software techniques (such as the new functional syntax of >>> Java 8) on the client side, what is likely to be the best alternative? >>> Scala.js seems the closest, providing a type-safe high-performance language >>> on the JVM, and full functional programming on the web. (There was a Scala >>> GWT project for a short time, but that has died). >>> >>> Is there likely to be an official GWT 2.8, even if GWT 3.0 never >>> happens? Or should those of us who want to make use of the power of >>> functional programming accept that Java (via GWT) isn't going to ever >>> officially provide that on web clients? >>> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the >> Google Groups "GWT Users" 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] <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> <javascript:>. >> 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]. 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