Re: Thoughts on GWT 3.0 re: Java 8 and IE 8/9

there should be simply no frameworks which support anything below ie9 at all, so the enterprise is forced to adjust :)

2013/10/25 Andy <pulazzo@gmail.com>

I just read through the notes from the GWT steering committee and would like to share our perspective. I know you have a lot of survey results and we're just 1 company, but here's some more info based on our needs.

Java 8 only

I would encourage and support this move. I've been writing a ton of Javascript for the past few weeks and really miss the functional style when I come back to Java. Lambdas in Java 8 are going to be powerful and fun and they should be used liberally throughout the GWT 3.0 APIs. We won't be able to move our backend to Java 8 for a while, but since we only ship the JS output of the GWT compiler, I'm happy to use Java 8 for front-end development.

Dropping IE 8/9

We just decided on Tuesday to drop IE7 with our next release. We got tired of working around hasLayout bugs, etc. We have several major customers that still have users with XP/IE7, but after consulting with them, we decided we could go ahead with dropping support. Unfortunately, many of our customers are using IE8 and we won't be able to drop IE 8/9 anytime soon. As a developer this is extremely frustrating, but it's the sad reality of the enterprise.

So Java 8 would be awesome, but dropping support for IE 8/9 would prevent us from being about to use GWT 3.0 until our enterprise customers upgrade their browsers.

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