[gwt-contrib] Steering committees stance on J2CL and the future of GWT?

2015-11-17 Thread Brian Pedersen
Based on the videos from the last meetup, and the notes from the steering committee, many of us got the impression that GWT was moving towards being a pure Java-to-Javascript transpiler, and that the official recommendations from the GWT team was for developers to plan ahead for this. *GWT 2.8

Re: [gwt-contrib] Re: GWTCon 2015 keynote question

2015-11-15 Thread Brian Pedersen
> > Yeah. The conundrum for me is that I'm addicted to the pure-JVM unit > testing/debugging that MVP gives you. > I believe Angular controllers, Flux Stores etc. can be just as JUnit-testable as MVP, when implemented in Java and exposed through JsInterop. There is a lot of pioneering to do,

[gwt-contrib] Re: GWTCon 2015 keynote question

2015-11-13 Thread Brian Pedersen
I was at GWTcon, and my perception of Juliens keynote and his presentation on JSInterop was, that he used AngularJS to demonstrate that it is now possible to use a JS based framework with GWT 2.8 through JSInterop, and to show solutions to common issues you might run into while doing so. Which

[gwt-contrib] Re: Voice of the GWT Committee???

2015-10-14 Thread Brian Pedersen
+1 all the way. I use every chance I have to spread the word about the changes JS Interop will bring to the web, but the apparent lack of engagement in the community from the people driving GWT, is giving me second thoughts. The official blog used to be OK, but that changed when google open sou

[gwt-contrib] GWT 3 info on GWT CON?

2015-09-14 Thread Brian Pedersen
I am really looking forward to GWT CON in November, but so far no talks has been announced on GWT 3 related topics. I know that the blueprint are still in flux, but I also have a feeling that the core team knows exactly which direction they are pushing GWT. My biggest wish is to see a continuat