I recall a patch to 2.6 (I think) that allowed Java 8 syntax. If I remember right this was available more than a year ago. This would be the equivalent of the 'retrolamba' capability that is widely used to allow Java 8 syntax with the Java 7 runtimes on Android.
An official 2.7.1 release with that patch would, I am sure, be very welcome and provide the great advantages that lambdas have for event-driven and responsive client development. On Monday, 30 May 2016, NGdeM <[email protected]> wrote: > One can understand that the amount of resources behind Angular are far > superior to those behind GWT. > > In any case, the project's last official hear-beat dates from December 3, > 2015, and this was a beta release. > > For anybody watching, it is scary to see a UI framework having releases > going out at such a slow pace. > It most likely far from being trivial to bring full support to the Java 8 > api. > > But in that case, could one say that the scope for the deliverable is not > properly planned? > Could the scope of the GWT releases have not been sliced into multiple > final incremental stable releases? > > None the less, even if the scope of the 2.8 release is to support the full > Java 8 API, then several beta releases like the beta 1 could have already > come out. Such as every 4 months there should be a goal to have something > stable coming out. > One could enumerate the set of of open work tasks and APIs not yet > supported... > > At this point in time, would looking at the release notes in the GWT > documentation just thinks the project is terminated. > > Would a beta-2 be possible any time soon? > Many libraries such as Vaadin GWT widgets no longer support 2.8 beta1. > > Many thanks and kind regards. > > > On Sunday, May 8, 2016 at 5:26:22 PM UTC+2, steve Zara wrote: >> >> GWT 2.8 is now well over a year behind what seemed to be the original >> schedule. I'm having to deal with colleagues who say they have lost >> confidence in the GWT project, which is a problem as I have GWT projects to >> support and further develop, as part of what I hope will be a globally used >> and long-lived system. Confidence in software requires the presence of >> established releases, NOT betas, which put off investors. >> >> Is there anything that can be done to assist with progress? Is there a >> problem with lack of interest in GWT from, say, Google? Does GWT 2.8 >> involve too many features when compared to 2.7? Is there a lack of >> developers working on GWT? Are more testers needed? >> >> Regards >> >> Steve Zara >> >> -- > 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]. > 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. > -- 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.
