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Google still has a team of 10 people working on GWT (they have no developer advocate anymore, so no one really advertises it). GWT is considered "infrastructur
by kyrra 13y ago
Google still has a team of 10 people working on GWT (they have no developer advocate anymore, so no one really advertises it). GWT is considered "infrastructure" by Google now. AdSense/AdWords both use GWT I believe (and that won't be changing anytime soon, so Google will continue to support GWT. There are also other small tools from Google written in GWT (Flights, their jobs site, and others I'm sure).
GWT doesn't have nearly the team it used to have, but its still being supported by Google.
EDIT: to add, GWT has recently transitioned to a non-Google site[1], run by the GWT committee. As well, a GWT focused conference is being organized by Vaadin[2].
[1] http://www.gwtproject.org/ http://www.gwtproject.org/
[2] http://gwtcreate.com/ http://gwtcreate.com/
- bradleyjg 13y agoYes, I know they have people working on it. Among other things this work consists of closing 90% of existing bugs as assumed stale. I'm sure that if you have code that works today it will continue to work if you change nothing (although there is talk of dropping support for IE8) but there are a lot of rough edges that will now never be improved. That's not optimal for people who bought the story that google was selling to developers just two years ago at IO -- that this was the wave of the future and well worth devoting effort to learning and pitching to clients.
- cromwellian 13y agoNo, 90% of the work consists of compiler engineering efforts to significantly refactor the compiler, improve performance, and radically improve interoperability with JS. It's taking a long time and we are more concerned with the future, and not just maintaining IE6 support which significantly harmed the design of several APIs.