GWT - Have You Used It?

[Flux]

Hey All,
I wanted to know if any of you folks are developers at heart and have messed with Google's Web Toolkit (GWT).
Version 1.5 was released recently and it contains many new improvements. I began developing an application back when 1.4 was out, but I stopped because it wasn't straightforward to use Hibernate with GWT 1.4. Granted, there are tools to help you, but I don't want to have to use another tool just to get it to work.

Any thoughts or challenges?

One main question I have is, is GWT slow when implemented on a normal server (non-Google massive computer)?

[Alathald]

I didn't even know they had a toolkit, I try to steer away from private, proprietary things like that. I've always liked C and BASIC (BASIC was my first love, don't judge me! ) though I'm thinking about learning something like Java or Python when I get the free time (so I have something a bit better than BASIC under my belt). TBH I need to brush up on my C as well

[DMB2000uk]

You know how mcdonalds couldn't accept payments by card till fairly recently?

Well their whole till system ran on BASIC!!!
(I know someone that used to work there).

I bet they got some college kid to make it for them and paid them very little for it.

Dan

[martini161]

basic FTW! (more specifically, visual basic, as im waaaaay to lazy to make GUI's in c )

[Flux]

Hey, the GUI is visual, so it makes sense to make it visually. It's the easiest and fastest way to create a GUI (which is so very important in the job world).

[Alathald]

I did decide to go learn python after this thread, I haven't had a whole lot of time to mess around with it but so far it's an awesome language. The idea of whitespace is just amazing, makes for far less typing and automatically structures your program to be easily human readable (though they've made it very readable to begin with). I would definitely check it out if you're looking for a new high level language to learn.