13 engineers on Hacker News describe using GWT first-hand: 3 endorse it, 4 regret it, 3 are mixed.
“GWT was my go-to front end framework, and it worked I suppose.”
mixed · production · algesten · 2016-10-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“There are other issues with GWT that ultimately led us to stop using it (googles lack luster support, other new tools that were more designer friendly”
regret · production · shadowmint · 2014-11-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“used to use gwt, it was a headache in production”
regret · production · shadowmint · 2014-11-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using GWT for over a year, and I've never had to dive into the compiled javascript to debug something.”
endorse · production · 1 yr · aliakhtar · 2014-11-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I used to use GWT extensively... it's approach was great at one time, and probably a bit outdated now, but it's not abandoned”
mixed · production · spankalee · 2014-08-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“code splitting and async loading (although we don't use it as much as we thought we would)”
mixed · production · skavish · 2014-03-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The reason we ditched gwt for ember was the 2 way bindings.”
regret · production · tbatterii · 2013-01-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've done the exact thing - moving a finance system to a GWT frontend... the system was reasonably easy to convert.”
endorse · production · RyanZAG · 2012-12-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I would advise against GWT, after two separate projects - it starts off simple, but then as the project grows the more you regret”
regret · production · sgt · 2012-12-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“GWT is a platform people. It has tons of goodies from doing the CSS sprites”
endorse · production · hello_moto · 2011-12-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we migrated a project from Spring + GWT to Spring + Vue.”
neutral · production · gdubya · 2021-01-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“in large GWT apps we use an event bus.”
neutral · production · skybrian · 2013-12-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I used to an be external contributor to open-source GWT, and then became a Google employee to work on the GWT team”
neutral · production · cromwellian · 2012-03-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?