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I know a lot of people who hate GWT, and it mostly boils down to GWT "abstracting away" the web (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) such that you build web applications wit
by flyosity 15y ago
I know a lot of people who hate GWT, and it mostly boils down to GWT "abstracting away" the web (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) such that you build web applications with no regard for the web as a medium. You can't really build software for a platform without knowing and understanding the constraints of that platform, and GWT tries to hide this as much as possible which leads to a lot of funky issues like huge memory footprints inside the browser, undocumented hiccups between Java and the JavaScript it generates for you, and a general lack of control over the user experience once it's within the browser.