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by pjmlp 1734 days ago
Except the platform is JavaScript, and TypeScript is basically Web IDL aware compiler on steroids, no need to use anything that adds even more layers.
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smallerfish 1734 days ago
That depends. If the rest of your application is in Kotlin, you're reducing cognitive overhead. Same language, same compile, same distribution. You can share view models between frontend and backend. It's much closer to what GWT promised to be than GWT ever was.
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pjmlp 1734 days ago
Guest languages are always an impedance mismatch with the underlying platform.

I don't buy into sharing source files instead of clean separation via Web APIs, the additional tooling complexity isn't worth the pain.

I did vote against stuff like GWT already several times, and every time it has been proven to have been the right decision, when things went hot.

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smallerfish 1734 days ago
> I don't buy into sharing source files instead of clean separation via Web APIs, the additional tooling complexity isn't worth the pain.

Fair enough, that's a different argument from the one you posed upthread though. The ecosystem and tooling are very much there.

Happy to disagree on architectural merit of the approach. Personally I'm done with javascript/typescript for any future products/teams I build, and am glad to have a viable solution.

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