One thing good about Silverlight is that you don't have to use Javascript.
Has anyone here successfully developed a JS app with a quarter million lines of code? And maintained it?
Has anyone here successfully developed a JS app with a quarter million lines of code? And maintained it?
You're grossly underestimating JavaScript.
With JavaScript its possible to break your code into logical abstractions, either functional or object oriented or a hybrid of the two.
What's stops you from writing maintainable JavaScript apps is perhaps the quality of devs.
The frontend is written in Javascript, it has nothing to do with GWT.
http://css.dzone.com/news/understanding-gwt-compiler
From the article: "The GWT compiler is really a Java source to JavaScript source translator."