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I feel like Google could have had this with their Closure Compiler/Sheets/Templates/Library but they never dedicated any resources to making the APIs more ergon
by no_wizard 6y ago
I feel like Google could have had this with their Closure Compiler/Sheets/Templates/Library but they never dedicated any resources to making the APIs more ergonomic and they’ve been historically poorly documented as well, not to mention for one reason or another the Compiler doesn’t do automatic dependency traversal and because the APIs are not not intuitive and well documented they lost mindshare.
Like many great Google projects it just never got fully realized, which is a shame :(
- bsimpson 6y agoClosure's Achilles' heel is that it's written in Java. It's well-integrated into the stack at Google, but independent JS developers are often skeptical of tools that require more than `npm install`. It's been recently cross-compiler to JavaScript, so it is now available via npm.