Fear and Loathing in TypelandAs a GWT fan, one of the things that people keep looking at Java for is the tooling. While Tor seems to be making great strides in the Ruby support, automated refactoring in untyped languages is hit and miss at best, completely impossible at worst. For my money, good refactoring tools in the hands of the average developer has been one of the great leaps forward in development over the last decade, and it is a big encouragement to have better APIs and internal code. Loss of this is not something I would like to see on a large scale. When you are talking about multi-project-multi team, losing the obvious checks against code that gets a new version of an API is a problem, even if the refactoring works as advertised in the API project. Again, you are back to writing test cases against someone else's API to see if there are obvious breakages.
