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What is the future of GWT?

dimi11 7 years ago updated by Ahmad Bawaneh 7 years ago 1

It looks like nothing is happening with GWT for a while.

On the other hand this JS community exploded with frameworks and technologies appearing every day. 

I know a lot of companies who disconnected GWT as a technology of choice and skipped to things such as: Typescript, React, etc. 

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GWT is not a framework to start with, you can actually say that GWT is a Transpiler that compiles Java Source Code into JavaScript source code, and every thing else in GWT is just a tool that helps you to write java code that can be transpiled into JavaScript source code, i think that why the name GWTToolKit is a fitting name, and the best thing you should know about GWT is that it works, GWT might be old but still good enough to survive the changes of 10+ years in the wild and will survive even more.


it might be hard to start with GWT but once you get used to it you know its good.


Now to the Js world, when you said exploding that was a good description, because it is really exploding since every few months someone invent a new mine, its like a mines land you might at any time step on one and then booooom, luckily we wont lose a leg here, but really all these frameworks are poping up because they cant settle on good framework that really works, they are shiny, they are fun to work with, they are good for  trying things out, or to build a small application for my brother who sits in his office and want something to organize his few excel sheets.


But try to build a real enterprise application with these and deal with customers who would ask you to do nice and ugly things and you will pay the bill.


The Js world is still evolving - Just like our mother earth when it started to take shape - erupting all the time.

GWT is like mother earth in it current state..


Do you think that we earth is already dead, or do you think that we already moved to live on the moon, or we are just preparing for that?