I have to agree. In fact, I would say that there was no mistake at
all.
On Oct 21, 12:59 pm, Peter Recore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I don't think "mistake" is the right word there. I'm not an expert on
> Java Compilers and JVMs, but I'll go out on a limb here and risk
> embarrassing myself - my gut feeling is that Java is much easier to
> compile into javascript than random bytecode is. GWT makes aggressive
> optimizations based on information it can infer from java semantics.
> If GWT had to generalize to work with any possible bytecode, I doubt
> the resulting javascript could be as efficient. Part of GWT's appeal
> is that the end product is fast and lean javascript. While it would
> be nice if GWT could turn random x86 executable into blazingly fast
> javascript, I'm not going to criticize the GWT team because they
> haven't done so yet. If I'm wrong, and making GWT work with JVM is
> trivial to do, that's awesome! Submit the patch to the GWT team. The
> fact that no one has yet done so yet implies to me that this is not an
> easy thing to do, or else no one really wants to do it. In either
> case, it is not a mistake that it hasn't been done.
>
> If you really like working in Scala, you could look into contributing
> to the project to compile Scala into Java, mentioned at the bottom of
> this page: http://www.scala-lang.org/faq/4
>
> If this post has a slightly sharp tone, it's because I don't like it
> when people criticize open source projects with vague complaints while
> at the same time asking for new features.
>
> -peter
>
> On Oct 21, 2:07 pm, Amir Michail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
>
> > Please support Java byte code so that we can use any languages that
> > work using the JVM such as Scala.
>
> > GWT made a mistake in only supporting Java. I hope they correct it.
>
> > Amir
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