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You'll need to branch out. GWT hasn't jumped from 2.4 in a good while and doesn't appear to be focused on. Just compare the activity from GWT [1] to Dart [2]. I too like GWT, but it is dying. Try clojure-script if you really like the concept.

[1] http://code.google.com/p/google-web-toolkit/source/list [2] http://code.google.com/p/dart/source/list

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Well, DART is a far more recent project which alone can justify more activity when compared to a more stable project. Also, DART, despite being very interesting, has to be supported by the browsers and that will be hell. So, I think that's a bit too close to the bleeding edge to be useful in the enterprise environment.

"Also, DART, despite being very interesting, has to be supported by the browsers and that will be hell."

Dart compiles to JavaScript precisely to avoid this problem. And while Dart's JS target support is somewhat uneven among browsers, it has been improving and will continue to get better.

Quite a few of the people working on Dart were previously working on GWT, and the eventual end-game for Dart is to cover a lot of the same ground GWT did, but with a new (but familiar) language instead of Java.

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