Is it acceptable that an official GWT implementation of the time API would be 
based on moment.js ? Or is it expected that it is all implemented with standard 
browser API and pure Java code ?
On 5 Dec 2018, 15:03 +0100, Jens <jens.nehlme...@gmail.com>, wrote:
>
> > For the emulation changes I can live with what is available now and get 
> > some more in a later release. But how does the gwt team decide which are 
> > crucial and which ones can be done in a separate library ? The java.time 
> > API should really be considered, the Date object has been deprecated for 
> > ages. Right now I use moment.js with a JsInterop mapping to handle dates 
> > and times.
>
> It is generally preferred to have JRE emulation within GWT itself instead of 
> having separate libraries. Basically a single source of trust, which is well 
> reviewed, tested and optimized. Also J2CL uses the same emulation and it 
> might be beneficial to have J2CL experts take a look at the emulation code as 
> well.
>
> There was someone who did java.time emulation but he never contributed it. It 
> was based on the threeten repository on Github. Personally I think java.time 
> should really be tackled by GWT because working with Date in Client code is a 
> pain. Using momentjs works, however it is still a pain for code you want to 
> share between client and server. (There is also a java.time emulation on 
> Github somewhere which uses momentjs under the hood I believe)
>
> -- J.
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