I'm constantly on code reviews for and occasionally writing GWT code, and the gymnastics and ceremony it requires on top of the slow compilation are painful eno

I'm constantly on code reviews for and occasionally writing GWT code, and the gymnastics and ceremony it requires on top of the slow compilation are painful enough, and the resulting JavaScript/html unpredictable enough, that I would refuse to work on any new project that used it. It's just a tool that makes your existing HTML/CSS/js knowledge useless, a crutch for java blubs.