On Wednesday, August 22, 2012 5:57:42 PM UTC+2, deepak chauhan wrote: > > One question is disturbing me from a long time. Why Google invented DART, > when GWT is already there?
See Alan's answer, and http://www.dartlang.org/slides/2012/06/io12/Dart-A-Modern-Web-Language.pdf > One reason I can see is that Google is planning to port DART in chrome > browser and dreaming to support by all browser in future, which may not be > feasible in case of Java based GWT. > > But, don't you think that it will decrease the popularity of GWT and > active activities on GWT? > No: - popularity: has CoffeeScript and/or Node.js had any impact in GWT's popularity? I don't think so. - active activities: activities on GWT are no longer lead by Google only, so even if Google's activities on GWT decreased (and I don't think they will, quite the contrary actually; FYI, they're recruiting), it wouldn't mean that "general activities" would. There's the steering committee, there's the community. I am asking this, because I have to decide between GWT and DART in a > project. > Dart is young and still not mature (only reached its first milestone) , things will continue to change under your feet and break your code. AFAICT, Dart has no equivalent to widgets and tools like GWT-RPC/RequestFactory, UiBinder, etc. It's much more "to the metal". Dart's generated JS also does not support IE: http://www.dartlang.org/docs/technical-overview/#howtouse (yes, I lied when replying to Alan), maybe it'll work in IE10 (maybe not). I'm not preaching for GWT though, only trying to be objective here. Dart looks great and some people have already deployed web apps in production using Dart. It really depends on your project (your needs, your deadline, etc.), and of course your skills. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-web-toolkit/-/WQG5m5v_eLEJ. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en.
