Re:Four Eras of JavaScript Frameworks
by karmakaze on Wednesday April 27, 2022 @11:46AM
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I used GWT at one company for a bit. It was a mixed bag sort of like maybe React-Native today, not so much in how the tech works but in the way lots of things work and things feel different or have unexpected seams. I remember at the time thinking it was quite impressive for how much it could actually do.
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I work at a ~1200 person company, been using GWT since I think 2012, before I joined. It's a mixed bag - it's clunky as hell sometimes, and we have been iteratively replacing it with React in places. Buuuut at the same time I'm often marveling at how amazing it is what they accomplished getting Java->JS compilation working like that. It's a very productive framework if you know how to actually use it. And that's tough to do