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The problem with GWT is that it appears to be a low-priority product at Google - it took them more than a year to release v 2.5 vs 3-4 months for 2.4 and earlie
by trekkin 14y ago
The problem with GWT is that it appears to be a low-priority product at Google - it took them more than a year to release v 2.5 vs 3-4 months for 2.4 and earlier. And we all know what happens to low-priority products at Google...
- johnyzee 14y agoGWT has been open sourced and a steering committee appointed to guide future development. So it is no longer really a Google project but owned by the community. Google has moved their resources on to Dart, which is a validation of the approach started with GWT, i.e. a higher level language that is compiled to JavaScript. It will be interesting to see where that goes, but it is difficult to imagine Dart as a language reaching the kind of maturity that Java has (libraries, community, ecosystem) for the foreseeable future.