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Not to be snarky but, GMail isn't written in GWT. GWT though would be a step towards the OP's solution.

• fgd 16y ago
  How sure are you in your claim? Any proof that GMail is not written in GWT?
  • gotouday 16y ago
    Gmail was written using Closure library built by google itself. Google release it for open source community now.
    • fgd 16y ago
      That is not proof, just another statement that means nothing without supporting data. Also, if GMail is such a successful use case for Closure library, one could wonder why did they build Google Wave client with GWT?
  • atlbeer 16y ago
    GMail predates GWT by at least 2 years.
  • eneveu 16y ago
    Here is proof: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=56758 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=56758 (Paul Buchheit was GMail's creator and lead developer) Also, here is more proof: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=190151 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=190151 You could tell me: "OK, but it doesn't prove that current GMail is not in GWT. It may have been rewritten". I'd answer that: - using firebug and looking at the js scripts loaded by GMail, there is no trace of GWT (things such as *.nocache.js scripts). They might have obfuscated to hide it, but why do that? - if Google indeed rewrote GMail using GWT, they would have announced it, like they did for Wave / Adwords. More discussion in this other thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1470633 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1470633