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Re:JavaScript: The World's Most Misunderstood Programming La... by arockwell on Friday January 02, 2009 @01:12AM (#417126)
Do you actually know anyone who uses GWT? I have not heard good things about it. I personally would rather ues plain javascript with jquery.
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Re:JavaScript: The World's Most Misunderstood Programming La... by litewulf on Friday January 02, 2009 @05:13AM (#417242)
I actually use GWT, and my advice is to be very careful.

I've managed to have bugs that show up in the browser that I have had an amazingly difficult time tracking down. You get a pile of javascript from your pile of java, and it can be hard to tell where the bug is at all.

Complexity is dangerous, and GWT is fantastically complicated. I haven't run into a GWT compilation bug, but I'm sure there exists such a thing, and the day I run into it I will simply sit down and cry because I have no other recourse.

(But when it works, I guess its kind of a nice way to build UIs, if you like Java-style UI APIs... I've never met such a person, but I'm sure they exist ;))

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Re:JavaScript: The World's Most Misunderstood Programming La... by Raphael on Friday January 02, 2009 @05:21AM (#417248)
Kdice.com, a game much like Risk, was done with GWT by one guy, and he wrote a book on GWT.
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