Is Anyone Using the Google Web Toolkit? 470
eldavojohn writes "After seeing some applications from Google and participating in the Google Codejam (which seems to be built using the GWT), I kind of expected to see websites spring up left and right based off the GWT. Well, it's been a year and a half since they open sourced it and I have to admit that I am more than a little disappointed by its low profile in the UI community. I've been trolling their blog and have seen a few books out on it. But the one thing I'm not seeing is its use outside of Google. I've worked through the examples and tutorials at home and though I've been impressed with the speed, I am disturbed by the actual result — a whole ton of generated Javascript. But this is the first UI technology I've found where I can write in the native language of the server (Java) to generate and unit-test the UI code. Aside from Google's use and the games of Ryan Dewsbury like KDice & GPokr, does anyone know of major sites using the GWT? If you don't and you've used it yourself, why isn't it taking off? Is it too immature? Is it a solution to a problem that already has too many solutions? Is it fundamentally lacking in some way?"
Re:Why the conclusions? (Score:1, Funny)
I asked a few guys in a neighborhood bar last night, and no one knew about GWT, so extrapolating my sample means that they have 0% coverage.
Re:The secret shame of Web 2.0 (Score:5, Funny)
Fixed that for you.
Re:General rule of thumb (Score:4, Funny)
Re:To me, (Score:5, Funny)
How do you get to the roof in a wheel chair?
Re:fr0sty piss (Score:1, Funny)
Er. Thats not the comment I meant to reply to ...
Re:The secret shame of Web 2.0 (Score:5, Funny)
Aha, gotcha! I knew someone would pedant all over me no matter how many "^W"s I put in there. You'll be happy (or possibly appalled) to know that I actually opened up a gvim window, pasted my text in there, and hit control-W, counting the presses till I got the desired result. First one kills "0", second kills ".", third kills "2", fourth kills "Web ".
Too bad Slashdot doesn't allow the <strike> tag, which I would prefer.
You may now pelt me with taunts of "NERRRD!!".
Re:The secret shame of Web 2.0 (Score:4, Funny)
Mostly because no one's really gotten it right yet
Presumably, everybody is waiting for Web 2.1 or 2.2.
Re:one fairly large website that uses GWT (Score:3, Funny)
wow [imageshack.us]
Re:Why are you expecting this? (Score:3, Funny)
Thanks. I'm always glad to see that my work is appreciated.
Re:Why are you expecting this? (Score:2, Funny)
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Slashdot is not exactly "the record."