It seems to me that the answer to a bad feeling is to contribute time and resources to help out, and I am going to try and do that. I would say that the number of developers isn't the only problem. I can't understand why an earlier release wasn't made with Java 8 syntax support. My impression is that this could have been done a year ago. It would have been a huge benefit for developers, and a morale boost for GWT users. Also, why hasn't there been a request for developers on the GWT groups? There have been requests to help with testing, but this gave the impression that a new release was perhaps only weeks away.
I'm a dedicated GWT user. I have substantial projects soon to be released. I don't see GWT going anywhere, as there is nothing that provides what GWT does, which is to be able to write powerful web clients using code written in a popular language with great tool support. I have found the ability to share code with non-web platforms to be outstanding - it's a ideal demonstration of DRY. But GWT needs better publicity and communication. Only yesterday I saw a discussion about GWT on Quora in which it was stated that GWT was dead, and also that GWT was a bad idea because it led to more code on the server! I'd love to see good material about GWT 2.8 (when it comes) on a site like infoq, to get GWT back into the 'headlines'. Also a GWT conference is long overdue. On Monday, 9 May 2016, P.G.Taboada <[email protected]> wrote: > So many people depending on GWT, GWT depending on Java 8 support/ guava > and Google does not work on the Java 8 API emulation. 3 devs working on > Java 8 emulation in spare time. > > Is it just me having a bad feeling here? > > > -- > 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/4ISY79wAq04/unsubscribe > . > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected] > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','google-web-toolkit%[email protected]');> > . > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>. > Visit this group at https://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 https://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
