I posted my message (OK. My rant!) here, because I wanted to get the attention of Goktug, Daniel & the rest of the Google crew. It is a plea to change something ASAP, and if someone could, it is them.
As for the rest of your comments... don't know where to start. Most important is, you seem to imply that using J2CL will resurrect something similar to the old legacy development mode. That couldn't be farther from the truth - I suggest you check the available (scarce) info on J2CL. Also: with the new compiler toolchain we (should) have even faster compiles. "We should" because it is not available anywhere, so we can't play with it. We are currently in the 5 to 10 seconds of recompile time with GWT, and I want this down to 2 seconds. I want Webpack all the way down, also for my Java code. With HMR. With HMR + react-hot-loader. Maybe that's possible with the GWT toolchain, but I'm not holding my breath... On Thursday, March 8, 2018 at 6:17:28 AM UTC+2, Tony BenBrahim wrote: > > I am perfectly happy with Java/JsInterop in its current state. Sure there > are some things that could be improved, but what couldn't. BTW, I have > never used the GWT widgets, so my case may be different. I tried TS, > Angular, etc..., and have come back to GWT with JsInterop to deal with > large projects. Porting a largish Angular/Typescript project back to GWT > with JsInterop, I found several bugs, because Typescript gives the illusion > of types and "type checking", while GWT does real type checking. > Put me in the camp that does not care if J2CL ever comes out. I want fast > compiles, especially in dev mode, anything that threatens that with a 2 > step compile is of no interest to me. I am also not interested in anything > that would compile differently in dev mode than in production mode in the > interest of fast compiles, we have been down that road before with the > legacy development mode, and when something worked in dev mode but not in > prod mode, it was not fun to fix. > Anyways, I am quite sure this does not belong in this group, so let's > continue the discussion in the main GWT group > > On Tue, Mar 6, 2018 at 4:48 AM, Ivan Markov <ivan....@gmail.com > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> This time I'll bite... >> >> J2CL has been - what? - two to three years in the making - yet, there is >> nothing released to the public yet (aside from a preview to a few blessed >> individuals). >> >> Before someone follows up again with the usual matra that "it is not >> production ready yet and it will do more harm than good" or "somebody is >> porting the GWT widgets to J2CL as without these J2CL would be unusable" >> let's ask ourselves: *are these statements holding any ground anymore*? >> >> Here's a situation which is very likely not typical to just us: >> We have to - like NOW - start replacing - in our app - all the dying GWT >> widget-set/RPC legacy with a maintained and more contemporary toolkit >> (React, Angular2, whatever). >> >> (And please let's not argue over whether the GWT widget-set is still an >> option for any new development. For us it is not. Also let's not argue if >> coding against JavaScript libs with the existing GWT compiler toolchain is >> a viable option in the long term - it is obviously not.) >> >> The question: shall we scrap GWT altogether and rewrite in JS/TS? Or >> shall we continue with Java/JSInterop? >> >> Now, please enlighten me how we can defend the option of continuing in >> Java/JSInterop - even in front of ourselves - given that 3 years from the >> initial announcement - J2CL is still just smoke and mirrors for almost all >> Google outsiders? We can't play with it to gain some confidence that it >> will work for us.. Also what happens if Google changes their mind and >> decides not to release it - say - due to legal issues? We would be stuck >> with an all-new Java/JSInterop code still bound to the dying compiler >> toolchain of GWT. Not a situation anybody wants to end up with, I guess... >> >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GWT Contributors" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to google-web-toolkit-contributors+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-web-toolkit-contributors/d9a326c6-ae1b-4577-8dd4-71d765ff547f%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
