Re:Breaking up with JavaScript front ends
by taeric on Saturday December 10, 2022 @06:11PM
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You didn't even mention GWT. I don't know what is causing it, but yeah, Google has dropped some turds over the years.
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Re:Breaking up with JavaScript front ends
by johnthuss on Saturday December 10, 2022 @06:27PM
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The original version of GWT was mainly about solving compatibility issues between browsers (of which there were many). Modern GWT/J2CL is all about leveraging the mature Java development tools, especially code completion. GWT can be used with just the standard DOM APIs very effectively these days via the elemental2 library.
Re:Breaking up with JavaScript front ends
by taeric on Sunday December 11, 2022 @12:21PM
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Apologies on the slow response.
That makes sense, but I also recall it was about trying to use the same language on the server as the client. And it worked as well as the efforts to use JavaScript is the server. Which is not to say it can't work. There are a lot of traps there, though.