Hi again Stefan ;-) In my opinion its just a matter of preference. If you like Java and are productive with it, use GWT, if you like Javascript and are productive with it, use Angular.
I'm on the Java side, so it's quite unfair for me to make a list of pros and cons of each language. You can have good and bad programmers in any of it, good and bad code in any of it. But talking about the trending, Javascript is far less "complicated" than Java. It's faster to get the job done, at least on the web. Remember the old days of C++ vs. Java? Same story: Java is less "complicated" than C++, you don't have to worry about memory management, platform issues, different compilers and so on. Now Javascript says similar things to Java: no worry about types, strong hierarchy of classes, static compilation, inner classes and so on. Did Java killed C++? Not by far. Will Javascript kill Java? No, it won't. Which should you pick to create your next web project? It's up to you. An interesting note: Angular 2 uses Typescript - which support strong typing (aka. becoming "more complicated"). And GWT is becoming more interoperable with Javascript, allowing code to be reused and accessed in a much better way that JSNI (aka. becoming "less complicated"). Do you see where is this leading to? I think both technologies are going "merge" at some point. Javascript is becoming the bytecode, the lower-level language of the web, the same way C and assembly are the lower-level languages of the operating systems. Code written is any language that compiles to Javascript will be reusable in other languages/frameworks, just like C libraries are today. If you are hiring developers for your company, you have an interesting scenario: since Javascript as a serious programming language is something relatively new (there are still people that thinks Javascript is just for animations on static web pages), it's harder to find senior Javascript developers than senior Java developers. But if you are looking for people with less than 3~5 years of experience, you may find easier to recruit Javascript developers. In my opinion Java developers shouldn't judge Javascript the same way they were judged by C++ developers in the past. They are just tools. Pick the tool which you consider is the right one for the job. Hammers can't "kill" screwdrivers. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GWT Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to google-web-toolkit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to google-web-toolkit@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
