YES! To add an analogy: I'm an old geek and going from JSP/JS/Servlet/MVC etc to GWT feels like going from assembly to C/C++... I sort of knew at the time that the compiler should be doing lots of things for me but now I've switched to GWT (last few years) it is even more obvious that I'm using a mature approach rather than wild west of previous web development.
More gushing: It is not just that they got the general approach right but the quality of design and implementation is exceptional. These people obviously knew what they were/are doing. On Friday, October 5, 2012 4:53:17 PM UTC+1, 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/-/C-z4g81TcXkJ. 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.
