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It's my experience with their web-oriented and JavaScript projects. They definitely put out lots of high quality open source work in other domains.
by jkkramer 10y ago
It's my experience with their web-oriented and JavaScript projects. They definitely put out lots of high quality open source work in other domains.
- Retric 10y agoGoogle does not actually do much with JavaScript. Sure they have gmail, but they put a lot more effort into graceful degradation than most web companies.
- cromwellian 10y agoGoogle has larger and more complex JS apps than most other companies on the planet. They do a lot with Javascript besides gmail. Maps, Docs, Photos, G+, are all large Javascript applications. And those are just a few.
- Retric 10y agoThese are all separate applications which sit in their own silos. They are individually complicated, but they don't need to fit into some company wide framework.
- cromwellian 10y agoThey typically sit on top of internal Google frameworks. Closure's runtime library is the tip of the iceberg.
- prodigal_erik 10y agoI think this is an age thing. People who grew up using the web before javascript started destroying it are more likely to accept professional responsibility for progressive enhancement, and Google skews older than many competitors.