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Closure Compiler was way ahead of its time. I used it extensively at my first job. It was the only way to stay sane pre-ES5. It's still great for people who wan
by ramesh31 3y ago
Closure Compiler was way ahead of its time. I used it extensively at my first job. It was the only way to stay sane pre-ES5. It's still great for people who want to write JavaScript applications as if they were Java applications. But it lost because people hate writing Java applications.
- aidenn0 3y agoAre you thinking of GWT rather than Closure?
- ramesh31 3y ago>Are you thinking of GWT rather than Closure? Yeah, fair enough. Though at the time their usage was almost always as a pair. Closure itself was still written in Java though, and had a bunch of support for Java-y things as well like namespaces, generics, inheritance, etc.