Re:Type-safe Ajax calls with Scala.js/Autowire
by frowaway001 on Sunday August 17, 2014 @02:56PM
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> where client and server code can be written in the same language
While I think Autowire will be a very useful tool, I'm not seeing how it's "a first step" ... I have successfully written and deployed Scala on both client and server without any issues since some time already.
I think the issue with GWT was that it
a) tried to be a framework (not sure why Java people love to build frameworks instead of libraries ... libraries compose, frameworks don't)
b) and required Java which just isn't flexible enough (syntactically and semantically) to interact with JavaScript in a meaningful way.
While I think Autowire will be a very useful tool, I'm not seeing how it's "a first step" ... I have successfully written and deployed Scala on both client and server without any issues since some time already.
I think the issue with GWT was that it
a) tried to be a framework (not sure why Java people love to build frameworks instead of libraries ... libraries compose, frameworks don't)
b) and required Java which just isn't flexible enough (syntactically and semantically) to interact with JavaScript in a meaningful way.