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CamouflagedKiwi on Jan 31, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: TeaVM: Build Fast, Modern Web Apps in Java

> Its close relative is the well-known GWT

The thing that is (somewhat) well-known for being an awful mess, which Google eventually realised and moved away from? Those who do not learn the mistakes of history...

cromwellian on Jan 31, 2021 [–]

Only the UI toolkit part was a mess. Google still uses Java to JavaScript compilation, through GWT’s successor J2CL.

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