Please excuse me for this negative feedback, but in my opinion, the survey is rather suggestive in that it presupposes that GWT should develop into something that better supports other technologies. It asks a series of questions that point in this direction (and it offers some free text questions about new features/extensions etc.), but it forgets to ask, which things should NOT change.
I would have liked to answer, that it should not lose its "core library" character. It doesn't come with bells and whistles, but its enormous flexibility - imposing zero restrictions on what you can do in web development - is essential (like with any successful language). Focus on reducing compile times even more, fixing all bugs, making it more extendable (e.g. by removing some unnecessary private modifiers, removing static state, ...), improving support of Java core libraries (and things that are close, like Guava, Joda, ...), improving some basic widgets - but don't impose the specialized concepts of Vaadin, GXT, ... (which absolutely do have their place, in their own frameworks!) on GWT itself. That's actually the only worry I currently have about GWT's future (Note: I believe it will turn out well). On Wednesday, September 19, 2012 3:23:24 PM UTC+2, Joonas Lehtinen wrote: > > What is your opinion on the future of GWT? > How should GWT develop? > What technologies should it better support? > ... > > We all would like to get answers to these questions, right? To do so, we > created survey with help of Ray Cromwell, Artur Signell, Mike Brock, David > Chandler, Daniel Kurka and Bhaskar Janakiraman. > > If you want to help finding the best direction for GWT, please fill the > survey at: http://bit.ly/GWT2012 > (it will take just 10 minutes) > > When the results are collected, the will share the information with you. > > - Joonas @ Vaadin > -- 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/-/5J6JhqkVerEJ. 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.
