Re: jquery?

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i' not interested in a flamewar like this, there are much better
topics (religion a vs religion b)

just wanted to gather some intel.

Am 25.10.2011 21:15, schrieb András Csányi:
> On 25 October 2011 20:57, Jeff Chimene <jchimene@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 10/25/2011 11:16 AM, Dennis Haupt wrote:
>>> hi there,
>>>
>>> a coworker told me that jquery has a bunch of advantages over
>>> gwt and that gwt offers pretty much nothing that jquery doesn't
>>> - and is going to infest our source code if i can't stop him.
>
> This is a typical first moment of a flame war. :)
>
>> 1) There's always the port of jQuery to GWT called GQuery. It
>> does add some value, and seems to work well for the limited use
>> I've made of it.
>>
>> 2) GWT is much more than just widgets (as is jQuery). Does your
>> co-worker know that GWT provides the benefits of type-safe code,
>> code optimization, leveraging IDEs for Java?
>>
>> 3) jQuery is a fine library. At the end of the day, you're still
>> writing and debugging pure JavaScript. As some Italians say, "I'd
>> rather pound on 'it' with large rocks.
>>
>> 4) There's probably a happy medium here, somewhere. But, in my
>> IMNSHO, if your team hasn't settled on a set of technology
>> solutions, and management hasn't supported that decision, then
>> you have other, more substantial issues.
>
> I have experience at both side. In my thesis I made a small php
> framework which generate jQuery source code to avoid writing
> javascript. If you do something like this ever you know this is
> could be a hard way. This was a hell itself for me. Debugging
> javascript It's a terrible thing even you have such a good
> application as firebug. I like jQuery because it's easy to use and
> fancy and etc, etc, etc. But, this is only a javascript library. By
> the way, my job is testing a huge website based on .NET technology
> and I hear every day they cursing my developer colleagues because
> they have to write javascript, html and C# code. And they have to
> debug it. Not to mention the fact you can't write junit tests for
> javascript. In my opinion here is the biggest advantage of gwt. You
> have to write only java code! From here you have all of advantage
> of using only one programming language, in this case java. For
> example, debugging, type safe, OOP and not to mention the IDEs. And
> top of that if you use other java technologies you have deal with
> only one programming language and as a consequence you can find
> employers easier, for example.
>

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