wedig

I use GWT-RPC because it is easy. For other clients I wanted to try Thrift. I like what Evernote did: https://blog.evernote.com/tech/2011/05/26/evernote-and-thrif...

Thanks for the j2objc tip! I will definitely be looking into that. I thought Thrift was as far as I could reach into iOS without Objective-C.

I haven't used J2EE. My experience with Django years ago made me framework adverse. I will be posting a sample app in a month or two that shows what I mean.

No worries then :) I'm comfortable with JavaScript and I've never used Swing.

I just use GWT to reach the browser, not to embrace it as an all encompassing framework or anything. I use Bootstrap as the UI starting point.

I've tried explaining this using terms like system programming or high efficiency programming. I guess it is best to just say "explicit memory management", so I updated the post.

I took this out because it was unclear. I meant scripting in the sense that Python and Ruby are called "scripting languages". One possible policy is to use Java for your application, and something like Python to write scripts for stuff like devops or whatever else "scripting" is. Instead of this, I prefer use one language as much as possible, currently Java.

I really like GWT. I will be writing some posts that will go into more detail.