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Yeah, some people go so far as to directly claim that something is good because Google uses it. And when Google uses it, it probably IS good for solving Google'

Yeah, some people go so far as to directly claim that something is good because Google uses it. And when Google uses it, it probably IS good for solving Google's problems. But most people aren't Google and don't have Google's problems.

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Freak_NL 8y ago
Ugh… We've had one of those developers. Now we're stuck with a legacy GWT¹ SPA that sucks the life out of any developer who touches it. 1: Google's abandoned webapp toolkit where you get all of the drawbacks of writing Java code with none of the benefits.
- james_s_tayler 8y ago
  GWT ouch. Or as I call it "get with the times!"
slifin 8y ago
Do Google still use their closure library + compiler on all their big properties? https://github.com/google/closure-library/ https://github.com/google/closure-library/ I'm learning Clojure at the moment, don't think I would have heard of Google Closure otherwise
- nojvek 8y ago
  Closure language and closure compiler are two different things. One is a lispy functional language with its own syntax, the other is a jsdoc typechecker and optimizer/monicker. A lot of what clojure does, Typescript does it really well with it’s types in jsdocs.
  - wilsonthewhale 8y ago
    They're related. The ClojureScript compiler uses Google Closure as a backend and runtime library
expertentipp 8y ago
> some people go so far as to directly claim that something is good because Google uses it. Angular everything and everywhere and sprinkle it with Material Design!
- tracker1 8y ago
  Not a fan of Angular, am a fan of most of Material Design.
tracker1 8y ago
Yeah... "because google|apple|microsoft|ibm|facebook ..." is generally a bad idea on its' own merit. I do like React though. I like similar JSX tooling around inferno and preact too. It's just something close to what I wanted when first playing around with e4x with flash/flex and mozilla browsers.

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Freak_NL 8y ago

Ugh… We've had one of those developers. Now we're stuck with a legacy GWT¹ SPA that sucks the life out of any developer who touches it. 1: Google's abandoned webapp toolkit where you get all of the drawbacks of writing Java code with none of the benefits.

james_s_tayler 8y ago
GWT ouch. Or as I call it "get with the times!"

slifin 8y ago

Do Google still use their closure library + compiler on all their big properties? https://github.com/google/closure-library/ https://github.com/google/closure-library/ I'm learning Clojure at the moment, don't think I would have heard of Google Closure otherwise

nojvek 8y ago
Closure language and closure compiler are two different things. One is a lispy functional language with its own syntax, the other is a jsdoc typechecker and optimizer/monicker. A lot of what clojure does, Typescript does it really well with it’s types in jsdocs.
- wilsonthewhale 8y ago
  They're related. The ClojureScript compiler uses Google Closure as a backend and runtime library

expertentipp 8y ago

> some people go so far as to directly claim that something is good because Google uses it. Angular everything and everywhere and sprinkle it with Material Design!

tracker1 8y ago
Not a fan of Angular, am a fan of most of Material Design.

tracker1 8y ago

Yeah... "because google|apple|microsoft|ibm|facebook ..." is generally a bad idea on its' own merit. I do like React though. I like similar JSX tooling around inferno and preact too. It's just something close to what I wanted when first playing around with e4x with flash/flex and mozilla browsers.