j2cl

This was a grand stroll down memory lane; having hacked Java since JDK 1.0, I've seen a lot of improvement. An idle thought: he favors server-side rendering whereas the javascripts seem to favor client-side rendering. Along the way doing servlets, there came to be "view first" rendering, where you use serverside to paint a minimal page which, itself, uses ajax calls to fill in the blanks. I used that a lot. It's true also that I migrated from servlets to node. But, in all of this, clojurescript erupted on the scene. And, for me, that's where the piece gets interesting: he introduces us to a java to clojurescript transpiler and tells us it was used to craft the google app suite. Now it's time to go play [1] [1] https://github.com/google/j2cl