Oh man, I forgot about sprites and resources! Those were so nice to deal with.<p>I hear that the current dev builds of GWT support Java 8 syntax, and last I checked I saw quite a few Google developers still working on to to add some much improved JavaScript interop. So although it hasn&#x27;t gained huge mindshare, it at least looks like it is far from dead.<p>Checking it out for a side project sounds like a really good idea.