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GWT is weighed down heavily by its mission to be both a Java->JS compiler and a UI framework. Scala.js is, first and foremost, a Scala->JS compilation mechanism

by maxaf 11y ago

GWT is weighed down heavily by its mission to be both a Java->JS compiler and a UI framework. Scala.js is, first and foremost, a Scala->JS compilation mechanism, and only incidentally can have a type-safe interface to UI (or any other) pure-JS libraries.