Rise of J2Cl: Java web development after GWT

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The blog post failed to link to their GH repo: https://github.com/Vertispan/j2cl and it's Apache 2 for those like to know: https://github.com/Vertispan/j2cl/blob/rebased_master/LICENS...

Interestingly enough, their M2 repo contains only "-SNAPSHOT" releases, and even those were only published back in 2021. Although there's a commit alleging an actual release: https://github.com/Vertispan/j2cl/commit/482e1592cd84063c16a... which seems to have gone to Central, so it seems best not to use their M2 repo: https://search.maven.org/artifact/com.vertispan.j2cl/j2cl-pa...

I think that is a fork. The main upstream work is at the google repository

Also worth mentioning is "bck2brwser" by Jaroslav Tulach:

https://github.com/jtulach/bck2brwsr

The guy is a genius. Original Netbeans engineer IIRC, now working on GraalVM stuff.

In his book on api design, he repeatedly calls himself the next Newton. He rants that others don't recognize his genius yet, but expected to be revered by historians. The actual content in the book was shallow and poor. I hope he received mental help and is doing better now.

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