I think GWT lost the plot when they moved to browser based debugging (the initial version supported IDE debugging of frontend code, which was awesome.) Kotlin.

I think GWT lost the plot when they moved to browser based debugging (the initial version supported IDE debugging of frontend code, which was awesome.) Kotlin.js is getting pretty close to the ideal. Look into KVision, which is a framework on top of Kotlin.js, which is pretty ergonomic.