EDIT: It is definitively only for full fleshed java-script web apps, not for quickly adding some gimmickry to a static webpage. As it happens I just started lo

EDIT: It is definitively only for full fleshed java-script web apps, not for quickly adding some gimmickry to a static webpage. As it happens I just started looking into it a few days ago. Here is what I found: The closure compiler really is it's biggest advantage. It compiles your code to really optimized javascript, with not one character too much. Only the parts of the library that you can actually use are compiled into your app. Also the library is pretty much extensive. For example their i18n code looks quite good. The downside (in my mind) is that it forces a quite verbose java-like programming style on you (classes with getters/setters etc.). You also have to annotate your code with type information (a la javadoc) to take full advantage of the compiler. Also the DOM APIs are really ugly. They basically look like the bare browser apis. Their is not really a big community around it either. But also means that nearly every line of code is actually used in a google application. I havn't decided yet if I should use it for my next project.