Gmail in particular is still written using GWT, AFAIK, hence the strange HTML, etc. Its current frontend is probably an unsexy maintenance project, with little or no new development; most new features and dev efforts are likely in the "inbox" project, etc.
Indeed; Arv is a TC39 member.
> Gmail in particular is still written using GWT, AFAIK, hence the strange HTML, etc. Its current frontend is probably an unsexy maintenance project, with little or no new development; most new features and dev efforts are likely in the "inbox" project, etc.
IIRC, Inbox is also GWT, so that they could cross-compile for the native platforms (https://gmail.googleblog.com/2014/11/going-under-hood-of-inb...)