Oh man, I forgot about sprites and resources! Those were so nice to deal with. I hear that the current dev builds of GWT support Java 8 syntax, and last I chec

Oh man, I forgot about sprites and resources! Those were so nice to deal with. I hear that the current dev builds of GWT support Java 8 syntax, and last I checked I saw quite a few Google developers still working on to to add some much improved JavaScript interop. So although it hasn't gained huge mindshare, it at least looks like it is far from dead. Checking it out for a side project sounds like a really good idea.