Re: GWT seems deprecated according to Thoughtworks

I to have been following this disucussion for some years now. Google is still developing gwt and using in in main products. In my opinion the gwt community is growing. But these old articels keep popping up. They are old. Jboss is developing Errai. A framework on top for gwt. so are vaddin and other companies. Look at what the technology offers. And be sure, we write our component from scratch. We generally think the basic gwt components lack html elegance :-) We like what GWT allows us to do. Develop and maintain an application of 800.000 lines of statements. I would not like to maintain this in javascript. We do selenium, but that only grantees that nothing broken goes into production. With javascript repairing something that breaks still costs time. Time we now do not have to spend. 

Lets put is like this. We would only think about moving to javscript if we can get tools and a compiler for it that gives us a typed enviroment. :-)

I have not seen an altenative. Sure, we know angular is hip and trendy. But we have a product to develop and not a resume to build. But we do hire out. In the gwt community we help a lot of companys whit improving the output html/css. We also do angular. It earns a nice extra income. But angular also has it's drawbacks :-(

With that said,

Have a nice day.

Op zondag 10 augustus 2014 10:36:30 UTC+2 schreef salk31:

I'm definitely not blind to GWT's shortcomings and I'm also worried about its future. BUT I can't see anything that seems more attractive to me.

I really like JavaScript for bits and pieces but my tired old brain is helped by Java, strong typing, IDE help...

Also the quality and depth of the "framework" bits of GWT are far beyond anything else I've worked with. UiBinder + Editors + RequestFactory + JSR-303 etc... is what I've been after for over a decade.

Java also seems like a good bet for the 10 man years we have put into my current project. I'm old enough to remember the last time JavaScript was hot and Netscape were pushing JavaScript on the server.

I'll keep reading the GWT bashing articles waiting for a link to something much better. Perhaps I'm showing my age waiting for an obvious thing to try like Java was to C++, Hibernate to straight JDBC...

Sam

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