Timeline for When not to use Google Web Toolkit? [closed]
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| Mar 7, 2016 at 8:15 | comment | added | Tomáš Zato | @Jas Main problem with GWT now is that literally everything about it is outdated. You have to download firefox 24 release to debug the project. I even tried to update everything to latest version, but well... I really do not recommend this framework for long-term projects. | |
| Jul 28, 2014 at 22:15 | history | edited | gnat | http://meta.programmers.stackexchange.com/a/537/31260 | |
| Apr 8, 2014 at 0:10 | review | Reopen votes | |||
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| Apr 8, 2014 at 0:09 | history | closed | gnat CommunityBot Bart van Ingen Schenau | Opinion-based | |
| Apr 5, 2014 at 13:06 | history | edited | maple_shaft♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Changing from asking for opinions to a list of arguments against using GWT |
| Apr 5, 2014 at 6:22 | review | Close votes | |||
| Apr 8, 2014 at 0:09 | |||||
| Jul 2, 2013 at 20:02 | comment | added | asyncwait | In fact google uses clouser lib for google plus! | |
| Jan 11, 2012 at 22:25 | history | protected | ChrisF | ||
| Nov 22, 2011 at 10:37 | answer | added | ChrLipp | timeline score: 25 | |
| Jan 22, 2011 at 16:54 | history | edited | Nicole | edited tags | |
| Jan 20, 2011 at 19:30 | vote | accept | Jas | ||
| Jan 20, 2011 at 18:44 | comment | added | Aaron McIver | @Jas It was a case of over-abstraction. The same type of abstraction that Hibernate and others attempt to provide but eventually get in the way due to being forced into a model defined by the product. | |
| Jan 20, 2011 at 18:36 | answer | added | Nicole | timeline score: 85 | |
| Jan 20, 2011 at 18:33 | comment | added | Jas | I am very knowledgeable in JS, wrote some pretty serious stuff there, however I am now running a very time-critical project and I cannot afford to have junior staff waste time because of errors induced by context-switching from say Java to JS. So please, if you have some real world example of why GWT did not work for you, then please describe it, otherwise let's not waste each other's time with hypothetical and highly subjective-colored discussions. | |
| Jan 20, 2011 at 18:29 | comment | added | Aaron McIver | @Jas Experience was couple years back; in it's infancy and it felt very raw at the time. Has it changed? Perhaps....but I am slowly attempting to learn the underpinnings of frameworks instead of relying on the frameworks themselves. At the end of the day it is a meat grinder for churning out JS; not that it is a bad thing but not somewhere I want to put my effort. Many of these frameworks are chosen due to lack of technology X knowledge or something thereof...but you will eventually need to become knowledgeable in technology X at some point in time....might as well go that route first. | |
| Jan 20, 2011 at 18:21 | comment | added | Jas | @Aaron, do you have an actual experience with GWT (good or bad, whatever)? I really don't care about what "could be", I am interested in hands-on experience of real world developers. | |
| Jan 20, 2011 at 18:12 | comment | added | Berin Loritsch | I don't recommend GWT personally. The mindset it forces you into works for desktop applications, but will give you problems trying to think that way in HTML functions. I'm a fan of matching the coding paradigm to the problem at hand, and the abstraction gets in my way. Which is why every time I started evaluating it, I decided not to use it. | |
| Jan 20, 2011 at 18:07 | comment | added | Aaron McIver | @Jas Let me rephrase..."I thought the GWT hype died" which can often signal a slow and painful death... | |
| Jan 20, 2011 at 17:55 | comment | added | Jas | @Aaron, really? | |
| Jan 20, 2011 at 17:55 | comment | added | Nicole | @Aaron you were hoping. | |
| Jan 20, 2011 at 17:54 | comment | added | Aaron McIver | I thought GWT died. | |
| Jan 20, 2011 at 17:52 | history | asked | Jas | CC BY-SA 2.5 |