This is an old article, and a poorly written one at that.
Strikingly though one of the criticisms that seemed most poignant to me is:
"GWT completely ignores the fact you are creating a website, NOT an application"... I think this shows a serious lack of forethought on the author's part to not see that many websites were turning into web applications, and many enterprise applications with desktop clients had also started to go down this route.
You should have read the link at the top as well, providing a follow-up that mostly contains "Ok, I didn't know thaat much about GWT when I wrote the first post, so here's my largely revised and far less polarizing opinion".
And this is why my blog only has 4 posts over 2.5 years. I simply don't have the desire to take on such polar opinions with such little topic background. It seems these knee-jerkish opinion bits on Dart, GWT, X, Y, Z have grown in popularity here. I enjoy the discussion because the comments here are full of more information than I could quickly aggregate myself, but I wonder when I will become a pompous enough software engineer to feel the need to write posts like this.
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This is an old article, and a poorly written one at that.
Strikingly though one of the criticisms that seemed most poignant to me is:
"GWT completely ignores the fact you are creating a website, NOT an application"... I think this shows a serious lack of forethought on the author's part to not see that many websites were turning into web applications, and many enterprise applications with desktop clients had also started to go down this route.
You should have read the link at the top as well, providing a follow-up that mostly contains "Ok, I didn't know thaat much about GWT when I wrote the first post, so here's my largely revised and far less polarizing opinion".
And this is why my blog only has 4 posts over 2.5 years. I simply don't have the desire to take on such polar opinions with such little topic background. It seems these knee-jerkish opinion bits on Dart, GWT, X, Y, Z have grown in popularity here. I enjoy the discussion because the comments here are full of more information than I could quickly aggregate myself, but I wonder when I will become a pompous enough software engineer to feel the need to write posts like this.