You don't have to use GWT webforms-style: you can also use something like GWTReact[1]. It ends up being more verbose than JS or TS, of course, but might be usef

You don't have to use GWT webforms-style: you can also use something like GWTReact[1]. It ends up being more verbose than JS or TS, of course, but might be useful if you've got a lot of business logic in Java that you want to be able to use easily in a modern web app. There's also JSweet[2], which compiles Java to TypeScript. I believe it can automatically convert TypeScript definitions into Java, so it's a good way to write Java that calls existing JS libraries. Granted, writing Java to run in the browser probably isn't the best solution for most people. But there are certain situations where it makes sense, and it doing so doesn't mean you're condemned to write an application that feels like crufty legacy garbage. [1] https://github.com/GWTReact/gwt-react-examples https://github.com/GWTReact/gwt-react-examples [2] http://www.jsweet.org/ http://www.jsweet.org/