Thank you Roger. And thank you for pointing out you love JS. I think that's an important thing to point out. The team has many Javascript fans and this kind of thing is important for me to know.
On Friday, October 5, 2012 1:04:28 PM UTC-4, Roger wrote: > > So i'd read up on having your PHP services produce JSON, and GWT's use of > RequestBuilder + JavascriptOverlayObjects. I've put plenty of GWT ui's on > front of rails, grails, php back ends etc. > > TO note: I love javascript.. use it all the time for personal projects.. I > just happen to like the blend these days to separate concerns a bit. > > Best, > Roger > > On Friday, October 5, 2012 at 1:00 PM, Charlie Youakim wrote: > > Thanks for the early replies. I also wanted to point out we use PHP on > the server side, and I'm happy with that. I feel like our struggles are > mostly with JS on the client side, which is why I'm looking at GWT. > > On Friday, October 5, 2012 11:53:17 AM UTC-4, Charlie Youakim wrote: > > I'm deciding on whether to switch my team to GWT. I think the biggest > thing for me as the tech lead for the company is "Are you happy with your > choice to use GWT?" > > My reasons for thinking to switch: > > -Javascript is a fast and free language, sometimes too fast and free for a > large team. Coding standards can vary from developer to developer, and > maintaining architectures can be difficult > -Javascript mistakes are only caught in runtime. The fact that GWT(Java) > would catch 90+% of our simple mistakes makes me more confident that our > clients won't. > -Javascript allows for rapid development, but not so rapid bug fixing. > -Strict Java coding + a strong architecture at the outset creates a great > foundation to build from. I've even seen this in my firm's Android apps. > They are very stable. > > But for me, I'd really like to hear from developers active in the > community. Are you happy? Or do you wish you went a different route? My > goal is to have my dev team work more on new projects rather than fixing > old projects. I am hoping that GWT can help with that. thoughts? > > -Charlie > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google Web Toolkit" group. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-web-toolkit/-/uZ_XLWOVNgsJ. > To post to this group, send email to > google-we...@googlegroups.com<javascript:> > . > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > google-web-toolkit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-web-toolkit/-/1uI21fbAQHEJ. To post to this group, send email to google-web-toolkit@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-web-toolkit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en.
