Sorry - the intention was to keep the survey as neutral as possible. We definitely did not want to suggest anything with the questions.
I fully agree with your point of keeping GWT a lean focused low core framework with no limitations. Other libraries that build on top of that (like Vaadin and GXT) can take care of adding more features on top of it. But maybe I am biased here being a Vaadin guy. We have been able to build on top of great work of the GWT team for years. Now when we have taken the next step by including whole of GWT in Vaadin and supporting client-side development side by side with server-side development it is even more important for us to keep the focus in the development of the GWT as the technical backbone. On Wednesday, September 19, 2012 8:06:08 PM UTC+3, Chris Lercher wrote: > > 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/-/2GcomBAX3E0J. 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.
