Re: The future of GWT and functional programming on the web

Thank you!  That's exactly the kind of news I was hoping for.  I do appreciate all the work that is put into GWT, and it has been a vital part of my software development for many years (and is in released products).  The thing that has been concerning is simply the lack of news!  

Thanks again.

On 4 September 2015 at 10:07, Jens <jens.nehlmeier@gmail.com> wrote:

According to the last steering group meeting minutes, the release of 2.8 is only waiting for JsInterop 1.0 to be finalized. The meeting minutes say that this is expected to happen at the end of september. If this holds true you will see a release relatively shortly after that. The lack of Java 8 API emulations (java.time, streams, etc) is not considered a blocker and is expected to be provided by contributors. I have already done some work on that and together with Colin Alworth and James Nelson we plan to tackle java.time and streams. But as we will work on that in our free time, chances are that it will not be part of GWT 2.8 yet. 

So with a 2.8 release the worst thing you can get is Java 8 syntax (lambdas, method references, default/static interface methods, intersection casts), stable JsInterop annotations, better SDM, lots of bug fixes. In the best case you also get some Java 8 API emulations. I guess there will be a 2.8.1 shortly after with additional Java 8 API emulations.

Also according to the meeting minutes the new GWT compiler is expected to work at the end of the year. This would then act as the base for an upcoming GWT 3.0 release.

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