Thanks for the feedback Chris! One of the nice things about doing a survey like this is the conversation that springs up around it, and you make a great point.
On Wednesday, September 19, 2012 7:06:08 PM UTC+2, 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/-/er5fYSb3XL0J. 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.
