On Wednesday, December 2, 2015 at 2:06:24 PM UTC+1, Adam M wrote: > > Call me old school but for me direction in which GWT 3.0 is going is > strange - if I'm forced to use HTML5/JavaScript libraries instead GWT > widgets why I should do anything in Java in the first place - just grab > Angular or Ember and be done - GWT doesn't help me too much with server > side code anyway. The whole purpose of using GWT/GWTP was to avoid to deal > with JavaScript, at least in my case. >
You fooled yourself (but you're not alone). The whole purpose of GWT has always been about tooling: http://www.gwtproject.org/makinggwtbetter.html Now that tooling is quite good in the JS world, GWT is turning to… tooling, still (because tooling for a statically-typed language is different from / can go farther than for a dynamically-typed one), and sharing code. > For me TeaVM has completely different approach to the problem than GWT - > it allows language agnostic web application development (I never liked GWT > no prisoners taken approach - Java or nothing - but as you know there was > nothing better in "dark ages" of web application development) - even that > end result is very similar - JavaScript code running in the browser. > I wonder if something similar like Java Byte Code to JavaScript could be > done with Microsoft CLI to JavScript (just wild shot - I'm not too familiar > with the whole .Net infrastructure - different programming environment) > Not only can it be done, but has been done, many times, including by Microsoft themselves: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Live_Labs_Volta http://jscriptsuite.com/ http://jsil.org/ http://jsc.sourceforge.net/ https://github.com/Reactive-Extensions/IL2JS https://github.com/mtenpow/xaeios BTW, there are / has been also many source-to-source compilers using C# as input: http://bridge.net/ http://duoco.de/ http://sharpkit.net/ and the pioneer of them all and now apparently defunct: https://github.com/nikhilk/scriptsharp -- 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.
