Re: GWT 2.8.0 RC2 is here!

2016-08-24 Thread Thomas Broyer
On Wednesday, August 24, 2016 at 4:38:51 PM UTC+2, Philippe Gonze wrote: > > Hearing that 3.0 will be a "bundle", our key concern is "How many > technologies should we (learn?) mix and organize to work together?". > Currently, GWT gives you a compiler with various linkers, emulation library,

Re: GWT 2.8.0 RC2 is here!

2016-08-24 Thread pg
Tnx Thomas for this detailed and valuable answer. For software creators of my generation (born 1956), the immensely attractive argument of GWT was : "you can create WEB apps (complex and powerfull web apps) by just using the best langage you ever

Re: Are there already some JSInterop repositories available somewhere?

2016-08-24 Thread Bruno Salmon
There is still a big difference between JSweet and GWT because although JSweet supports Java 8 syntax, it doesn't do any JRE emulation. So JSweet is much simpler and it can be a good choice if you just want to write your JS code from Java (with all the advantage provided by your Java IDE like

Re: Are there already some JSInterop repositories available somewhere?

2016-08-24 Thread Vassilis Virvilis
Bruno thanks for the links. I didn't know about jsweet and jsinterop.xyz. It would be really cool if GWT could tap on all of these js libraries (candies) offered by jsweet. Then of course the differences between GWT and jsweet become hard to see. jsinterop.xyz is of also interesting. Isn't this