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I _hate_ web apps/sites/services created with GWT. They result in a) overcomplicated UIs b) assets which are completely opaque. Which runs contrary to the prom
by cdent 14y ago
I _hate_ web apps/sites/services created with GWT. They result in a) overcomplicated UIs b) assets which are completely opaque.
Which runs contrary to the promise of the web: simple stuff that anyone can learn from.
I realize this is an old saw that the young turks of HN probably don't care much about, but it is damn sad.
- camus 14y agothe promise of the web is "build once , run everywhere" , not "read the source code, ripoff that work". Nobody cares how it is done. the web is a plateform , the only things that matters is that the software runs on that plateform, without the need of going native.
- cdent 14y agoIs it churlish of me to respond with a simple "bollocks!" here? A great deal of people care how it is done.