In the same vein as your comment, I might as well say back end development sucks because the default MySQL datastore quietly drops strings longer than the field[1].<p>These days front-end =&#x2F;= Javascript[2] by a long shot (maybe <i>yours</i> is, but blame the person who made that decision for your project).<p>1. I don&#x27;t know if that&#x27;s still true. If it is, then I&#x27;m glad I no longer have to deal with MySQL.<p>2. GWT had strong-typing since forever. Not that I&#x27;m endorsing it, but it&#x27;s still front end. I do recommend TypeScript