Re: GWT seems deprecated according to Thoughtworks

I am also quite deceived by the fake-arguments from M. Fowler... As a user of GWT since 1.6, i can say that i would not have acheived all the applications i wrote by writing pure Javascript. Neither would i be able to write big native applications by writing pure assembler (even macros would not help much in that case ;))

Of course, as with any technology, there are caveats, and weak points - and as always, to gain mastery over the tool, one has to know very well the platform it is build to run on (in that cas the browser - and i had never advocated that by using GWT you would not need to know the Web platform and JavaScript).

But providing a typed language, the IDE debugging and developping tooling is just too precious to build complex big applications !

Of course, before beginning a project, one has to carefully choose the tools to work with, by having the long-term vision about the result one wants to obtain. I would not build a static web page with GWT, neither a simple web form (the kind of problematics Angular demonstrations are working on). When i use GWT, it is often to build complex applications - those i would have written 10 years ago with C++ natively on Windows.

For me GWT is a perfect match for many projects i work on.

What should be improved IMHO in GWT are those points (not exhaustive...) :

- supporting other languages (C#, Clojure, Scala ...), leveraging the compiler (which should be more modular i think),
- invest a lot in SDBG, the tool to debug with the same experience as with DevMode

Thanks for the discussion ;)

Arnaud Tournier
LTE Consulting

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