I was skeptical at first too, and I wouldn't recommend it to anyone who doesn't already have a pretty good understanding of JavaScript. But I'd urge you to try

I was skeptical at first too, and I wouldn't recommend it to anyone who doesn't already have a pretty good understanding of JavaScript. But I'd urge you to try it for a week or so. It's not a layer of abstraction like GWT; it's just a nice, succinct syntax that compiles statement-by-statement to JavaScript.