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How do you feel about improvements in GWT development speed? In terms of development mode, compilation times and the whole process of making a java code change and seeing the result in a browser? Is there a lot of work on making this better?

GWT is nice, but I remember a lot of frustration came from buggy dev modes and compilation times.

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We've been using GWT master with both incremental compilation + Java 8 lambdas (!) and it's pretty fun.

Granted, the non-JVM debugging experience is not nearly as magical as it was before, but I believe there is some work afoot to merge SDBG (source map-based debugging in Eclipse) + the GWT plugin. Still WIP.

It has improved a lot just within the last year, with the new development mode landing, and it will be really good once incremental compilation arrives, which is scheduled for this year. Just compile, refresh browser, done.

I kind of enjoyed debugging in the IDE with the old dev mode, but I agree it was kind of quirky and slow.

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