I have used GWT since 2007 not because i like java more than javascript, but because it gave me: - type safety - refactoring - intelligent i18n - automatic sprite management - output fairly certain to work on all popular browsers
I don't think typescript or any of the now-popular stacks provide these things as elegantly as GWT can provide them, but GWT is definitely the least popular web framework nowadays probably because java is boring to write and compilation time is slow. I realize part of the point of GWT was to allow java programmers to work on web stuff, but java is kind of a pain and it's a shame to lose the good parts of GWT. I wonder if any of the GWT devs have seen Scala.js or Kotlin (which can compile to js). Would it be viable to integrate with those stacks? -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
