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> Can anyone name a Google library they've actually enjoyed using? No, I'm mostly with you here. Closure Library is OK if you don't have anything else that rep
by capableweb 5y ago
> Can anyone name a Google library they've actually enjoyed using?
No, I'm mostly with you here. Closure Library is OK if you don't have anything else that replaces it (or if something you use ships with it, hello ClojureScript) but other than that, their libraries leave a lot to offer. But Google Closure Compiler is magic (in a good way) though, but you can't call that a library.
> Every library I've greatly enjoyed has come out of Facebook, never Google.
I'm sure I'm reading this the wrong way, because surely you can't mean that every library you've greatly enjoyed has only came from Facebook? Most of the really well made libraries I've used in my time, has come from private people, besides React. But now React has better replacements available as well, like Preact. But other than that, larger companies seem to be really bad at writing libraries for the world at large, which makes sense, they mostly care about their own use-cases.
- disgruntledphd2 5y agoI'm pretty sure that they meant that FB tends to write more useful libraries than Google.