Is J2CL available to the public yet? This thread is very old and I've seen no news about it...
Thanks, Norbi On Saturday, 24 October 2015 00:31:40 UTC+2, Thomas Broyer wrote: > > > > On Saturday, October 24, 2015 at 12:14:17 AM UTC+2, Marko wrote: >> >> I see the term "j2cl" comming up in several threads connected with GWT >> 3.0. What does it mean? >> >> I speculate that this is a "Java-to-Closure-Library" transpiler, which >> would be GREAT, because you wouldn't depend on JRE emulation library >> anymore and GWT 3.0 would be safe from "Oracle copyright lawsuit nonsense". >> Additionally you could integrate JavaScript Closure Library code with Java >> code transpiled to Closure Library and it would use the exactly same class >> library... I guess also that Google would profit from such a transpiler in >> Google Inbox and other similar projects... >> >> I hope I am not speculating too much into the Google's trade secrets and >> that this post will not be deleted because of this... :-) >> > > You're almost right (Googlers will correct me if I'm wrong). > > j2cl stands for Java-to-CLosure. It's not much about the Closure Library > but rather the Closure Compiler. It's a transpiler from Java to > Closure-annotated ES6 (there are a couple videos about this from the GWT > Meetup earlier this year: > https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1yReUCGwGvrqscLu1EAyYRPrr0ceEHLE > ), type annotations will help the Closure Compiler prune unused code to > further optimize the produced JS. > > But it won't free us from the JRE emulation library. > -- 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.
