> > 1. The backing company backed off but kept the crucial new piece > secret - J2CL. > > These days it is already available to a few people who take their spare time to make it useable by the general public.
> 1. The past and current stated direction devolves the product, does > not evolve it. Good, differentiating features aren't enhanced or even > replaced but just plain eliminated under the premise that select few NOW > (but not all) think they are bad but are really only hard to do, which is > what makes them useful (say GWT RPC, debugging, widgets). I could have > helped with that. No more, though. > > GWT 3 compatible UiBinder already exists, GWT 3 compatible GWT RPC is being worked on, Widgets will be GWT 3 compatible, other code is already GWT 3 compatible or is being worked on. There are quite some new people who never really contributed to GWT itself before who now step up and invest time in migrating existing GWT SDK code to JsInterop / APT. So you can still help if you want to. See: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1b1D9fEqRh5lZ8cqMJtYoc_25rfTRvsuJkTtS2vjgi3o/edit#gid=0 https://ci.vertispan.com > 1. Inability to plan proper migration to 3.x - "just don't use > anything useful from previous versions" obviously doesn't cut it. > > People were a bit too scary I think. Obviously a migration plan must be planned and can only be planned if you have the tools like JsInterop, elemental2, J2CL to do so. As you see above it does not look that scary anymore. A bunch of people are working on migrating GWT code, even the tough ones like GWT-RPC / UiBinder (though they require some changes in apps because of APT). Current plan is that you must get rid of any deprecated GWT APIs in your app as these will finally be deleted. Then you pull in the new libraries and update your imports. Finally you have to apply (hopefully small) code changes in your app to meet the "no GWT.create(), no JSNI" requirement. > If and when it comes back, it will be a totally new contender (not > compatible with anything there ever was as is) to reevaluate, with a huge > stain in its history. > A pretty appealing contender. -- J. -- 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/b3a3ecd2-832d-4bd0-95e4-cabbf1e3c5a9%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
