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Closure was/is a technological marvel - years ahead of the competition in some aspects. Closure had dead-code removal years before "tree-shaking" became popular
by sangnoir 3y ago
Closure was/is a technological marvel - years ahead of the competition in some aspects. Closure had dead-code removal years before "tree-shaking" became popular in the Javascript world - both the buzzword and the implementations.
The public-facing documentation was terrible, and it got very little evangelism.
- paulddraper 3y ago> The public-facing documentation was terrible, and it got very little evangelism. Like a lot of Google OSS projects, honestly. Cool tech, but awkward for everyone not-Google to use.
- kaba0 3y agoAlso: it allowed multiple teams to work on huge code bases without constantly stepping on their feet - it was basically impossible to write bigger JS apps before.