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On 05/19/2012 03:34 AM, kritic wrote:
> Regardless of what the GWT team says, I do believe GWT as it is now
> will be phased out.

I fear you're right.  I get the same feeling, for the reasons you
mentioned.  It's too bad, because Dart, while an improvement over
straight JS, brings - for me - the worst parts of JS (dynamic typing)
and Java (unhelpful verbosity) though with some welcome improvements
to structure-ability and defining anonymous functions.

Scala-GWT is getting quite close to a first release.  It's a long
shot, but I hope it takes off.  Scala is extremely well-suited to
cutting out huge amounts of ui-callback boilerplate without
sacrificing any type-safety.




> Don't get me wrong, I think the features that GWT provides are 
> second to none and the work put into it has been nothing short of
> impressive, but it has to be recognized that it is also becoming a
> rather pain in lower back for Google simply because it uses Java.
> Seems odd, but I really think the whole thing with Android is
> leaving a bad taste. I really do think Java will become used less
> and less for future projects (especially GWT).
> 
> The way GWT is now, like I wrote already, will probably be shifted
> to something else. Dart is all the rage right now and it's nice,
> however it almost feels like an attempt to replace GWT. Golang (Go)
> is another language that is very well thought out and could
> conceivably replace Java within, at least, Google.
> 
> Perhaps emscripten has been looked at by the GWT team. Perhaps it
> may be better to use something like that - which will introduce a
> mix of languages with all the same features as GWT? I would enjoy
> that. I think many would. Right now, though, I am keeping my
> distance from GWT. Even though it's a fantastic technology.
> 
> On Thursday, May 17, 2012 2:00:00 AM UTC-4, Celinio Fernandes
> wrote:
> 
> Hello, I just noticed that the schedule for Google IO 2012 is now
> available : https://developers.google.com/events/io/sessions 
> <https://developers.google.com/events/io/sessions> Not sure whether
> it is definitive or not. I see that this year there is no session
> dedicated to GWT. How come ? But there are 2 sessions dedicated to
> Dart. Is this a sign ?
> 
> 
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