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Re:Meta’s live demo fails; “AI” recording plays before the a... by rkagerer on Friday September 19, 2025 @07:50AM (#45300530)
<Waves to you>

Neat, thanks for sharing this tidbit of history. Hey, what did the team think of the decision to build it on GWT at the time? (From the outside, seemed like an enabling approach but a bit like building an engine and airframe all at once).

Re:Meta’s live demo fails; “AI” recording plays before the a... by pamelafox on Saturday September 20, 2025 @01:28AM (#45310658)
Hm, I didn't work on the frontend but I don't particularly remember griping..GWT had been around for ~5 years at that point, so it wasn't super new: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Web_Toolkit

I always personally found it a bit odd, as I preferred straight JS myself, but large companies have to pick some sort of framework for websites, and Google already used Java a fair bit.