Riot – A React-like, 2.5K user interface library

Post by [deleted] » Tue, Jan 27, 2015, 4:58 PM UTC

api wrote: post #142

saurabhnanda wrote: post #138

I just wish there was a way to fast forward 2 years into a 10k LOC project to find out what new problems this creates. After running after the new hotness in technology for the last 5 years, I've realised it's never about the problems it solves today. It's the shit that you have to maintain a couple of years down the line. (Not saying that this is bad -- just a random rant)

I tried GWT years ago. It worked amazingly well, and let me write web apps in a real language. But it was significantly slower to develop a new site in GWT vs. plain vanilla HTML + CSS + JavaScript, and the speed to get up and running eventually seduced me away. Now I'm considering going back and giving it another try. It takes more time to get up and running with GWT, sure, but the stuff you do write with it is writ…