-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Cool, thanks for the pointer. I knew about Xtend, but didn't put see the implications of its compiling to Java for GWT development.
I'm quite happy with Scala in general, but something statically-typed and less verbose than Java would be very welcome for GWT work. On 09/20/2012 09:54 PM, RonS wrote: > Sounds like you're set with Scala, but another advanced JVM > language option is XTend (http://www.eclipse.org/xtend/). > > They recently added GWT support: > http://blog.efftinge.de/2012/08/gwt-programming-with-xtend.html > <http://blog.efftinge.de/2012/08/gwt-programming-with-xtend.html> > > > On Thursday, September 20, 2012 1:23:06 PM UTC-5, Clint Gilbert > wrote: > > I would /love/ to be able to use a language other than Java - in > particular, Scala - for GWT development. On my project, we use > Scala for all our other JVM work, and it's been a massive > boilerplate killer, plus easily graspable by > curious-but-merely-mortal developers like me. > > The folks here: http://scalagwt.github.com/ have a working > prototype, but the last I heard, they needed to submit a patch > upstream to GWT. (Or maybe their patch needed to be accepted, I > don't know.) > > I like GWT quite a lot, and would not make a dynamic web UI > without it, but the biggest drag is having to go back to Java. > > On 09/19/2012 09:23 AM, 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/-/i8aXw78yueQJ > >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-web-toolkit/-/i8aXw78yueQJ>. >> 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 > <http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en>. > > > -- 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/-/nHUat9IKTUsJ. > 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. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlBcrzoACgkQ5IyIbnMUeTvt+wCeNNJTTUHxPX+sbClsVa+/OzeO tNAAn3h1KY3mMSHTCPUtadE0xCbz4Svl =WcsT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. 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.
