GWT was first released 11 years ago, the most recent update was less than a month ago. If that's not an example of future-proof (for web technologies) I don't know what is.
Whether it's kept up with the state of the art I don't know, but I think that's a different thing.
Re:Switching From React To Vue.js
by thibaut_barrere on Wednesday May 31, 2017 @04:59AM
(#14451173)
I was referring to http://www.gwtproject.org/release-notes.html - e.g. the release hole that happened between 2.7.0 and 2.8.0 (2 years). Some clients actually decided to stop using GWT at that time, because of that.
Re:Switching From React To Vue.js
by plorkyeran on Sunday May 28, 2017 @02:29PM
(#14435490)
Three20 was made obsolete by the useful parts of it getting built into the platform SDK, and yet it was still maintained and kept in a working state for longer than it was ever actually useful.
Re:Switching From React To Vue.js
by thibaut_barrere on Wednesday May 31, 2017 @05:46AM
(#14451337)
I know that - but the fact is that for one client of mine, the app was initially build on three20, then they had to literally rebuild it from scratch as they realised that three20 was becoming obsolete.
One of the reasons for the choice was the FB branding associated as something that can be trusted!
Absolutely. Look at google for instance and all the things they've stopped supporting.
I find the argument also quite disturbing because this will add to the already existing monopolies of these "large companies".
Previous instances of that pattern:
- three20 (used in FB ios app https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three20)
- GWT
- Angular is actually a similar instance of that problem, to some extent
If "large company" switches their goal at some point, then you're still alone.
Currently I'm kind of more confident (in some way) to the future stability of Vue, than of React (just a gut feeling, time will tell!).