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GWT has been open sourced and a steering committee appointed to guide future development. So it is no longer really a Google project but owned by the community.

Google has moved their resources on to Dart, which is a validation of the approach started with GWT, i.e. a higher level language that is compiled to JavaScript. It will be interesting to see where that goes, but it is difficult to imagine Dart as a language reaching the kind of maturity that Java has (libraries, community, ecosystem) for the foreseeable future.



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