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Google Employee Creates Closure Lite
- jrockway 17y agoWith every other software package that uses functions called "Closure", it is getting somewhat difficult to tell what's what. Apparently this is a JavaScript library. (Not to be confused with the programming langauge Clojure, or the CL implementation Clozure, or the web browser Closure...)
- seiji 17y agoGoogle has been perverting names for a while. Some one-name google products: reader, chrome, notebook, docs, calendar, sites, voice, wave, transit, checkout, groups. Searching for those words alone usually brings up the google product as the first result. Looks like google wants to own a lot of common generic nouns. I was reading some mozilla docs recently and every time I hit the word "chrome" meaning "browser chrome" and not "chrome the browser," I was met with a little cognitive pause and kept having to double check their meanings. Just look at http://kb.mozillazine.org/about:config_entries http://kb.mozillazine.org/about:config_entries -- we have entries like "browser.chrome.[blah]." A few years ago it was blindingly obvious what they meant. Now, for a spit second, I see myself wondering "Why is FireFox using Chrome settings?" It's against good taste to call your products very generic but widely-used names.