closure-compiler
Killed by Google
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15 | 2,305 | |
7,254 | 2,359 | |
0.3% | - | |
9.6 | 7.0 | |
7 days ago | 19 days ago | |
Java | TypeScript | |
Apache License 2.0 | MIT License |
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closure-compiler
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Figma's Journey to TypeScript
Well, the nice thing with Python types is that the _only_ difference to untyped Python is the type annotations. Last time I worked with TypeScript (two and a half years ago), it felt more like a different language _similar_ to JS. In my experience it was quite... viral. With MyPy I've genuinely seen just specific parts of a code base become typed and didn't notice any friction.
I wonder what would happen if that proposal for type comments in JS went through. Would TypeScript become just a type checker / optimizing compiler?
Google's Closure had an (IMHO) nicer approach (https://github.com/google/closure-compiler/wiki/Types-in-the...), but I don't get the impression it'll ever catch on outside Google.
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TypeScript Might Not Be Your God: Case Study of Migration from TS to JSDoc
The most well-known tools that rely on JSDoc are Closure Compiler (not to be confused with the Closure programming language) and TypeScript. Both of these tools can help make your JavaScript typed, but they approach it differently. Closure Compiler primarily focuses on enhancing your .js files by adding typing through JSDoc annotations (after all, they are just comments), while TypeScript is designed for .ts files, introducing its own well-known TypeScript constructs such as type, interface, enum, namespace, and so on.
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Minify and Gzip (2022)
Closure Compiler follows the same line of thinking:
https://github.com/google/closure-compiler/wiki/FAQ#closure-...
- Svelte is migrating from TypeScript to JSDoc
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Do any engines or optimizers product TS-specific performance gains?
I think only Google Closure Compiler did some optimizations based on its JSDoc-style annotations (see docs). If I remember correctly, types mostly allowed renaming objects' properties across modules, but most other advanced optimizations (like dead code elimination or functions inlining) didn't rely on types. In my experience properties renaming resulted in subtle, hard to discover bugs and I'd say they didn't bring much benefit.
- Can something like typescript or elm be AOT-compiled efficiently?
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What does it mean?: *Template parameter* in Google style guide
The @template tag is supported by Google Closure Compiler
- Google announces a new OS written in Rust
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Google Fonts Pull Requests Ignored
i'm not sure you want them to write back https://github.com/google/closure-compiler/pull/3958
time to fork
- Why don't we do this instead of TypeScript?
Killed by Google
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Apple Introduces M4 Chip
>Google operates in China albeit via their HK domain.
The Chinese government has access to the iCloud account of every Chinese Apple user.
>They also had project DragonFly if you remember.
Which never materialized.
>The lesser of two evils is that one company doesn’t try to actively profile me (in order for their ads business to be better) with every piece of data it can find and forces me to share all possible data with them.
Apple does targeted and non targeted advertising as well. Additionally, your carrier has likely sold all of the data they have on you. Apple was also sued for selling user data to ad networks. Odd for a Privacy First company to engage in things like that.
>Google is famously known to kill apps that are good and used by customers: https://killedbygoogle.com/
Google has been around for 26 years I believe. According to that link 60 apps were killed in that timeframe. According to your statement that Google kills an app a month that would leave you 252 apps short. Furthermore, the numbers would indicate that Google has killed 2.3 apps per year or .192 apps per month.
>As for the subpar apps: there is a massive difference between the network traffic when on the Home Screen between iOS and Android.
Not sure how that has anything to do with app quality, but if network traffic is your concern there's probably a lot more an Android user can do than an iOS user tp control or eliminate the traffic.
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Google Fit APIs get shut down in 2025, might break fitness devices
> This is proved by countless “killed by Google” incidents..
Oh, the Google's Graveyard: https://killedbygoogle.com/
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How I migrated from Firebase to Supabase
I was already starting to feel a little cornered in the whole Google ecosystem and a bit limited with stuff like backups, vendor lock in, etc. (and you always have the obvious hanging over your head) and ultimately, I think I just find the mental model of a SQL database more intuitive compared to a NoSQL database. So I thought to myself; "the longer I leave it, the harder it'll be to make the switch".
- With Vids, Google thinks it has the next big productivity tool for work
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Google Axion Processors, our new Arm-based CPUs
https://killedbygoogle.com/
Their reputation is deserved. Google domains was killed only last year!
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Google's Decision to Effectively Kill-off Small Sites
And this isn't even the first time I've been burned by Google's decisions. If you're familiar at all with the Google Graveyard, you'll know that Google has a long history of killing off products and services that people have come to rely on. This has happened to me a number of times, in both a personal and professional capacity, and frankly it's getting old.
- Google Scholar PDF Reader
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Calls grow for Sundar Pichai to step down from Google CEO position
Just because Google has a couple of decent services that you're willing to pay for doesn't detract from the fact that most of their products have a worse life expectancy than a victorian child in the 1800s. https://killedbygoogle.com
They ruined every single opportunity to be more than an advertising company since Orkut. With scrapped attempts, starts and lack of intention for most of the 2010s to even during the early half of the Pixel Era, they seemingly haven't learnt to stick to something and iterate on it well.
And the fact that over 50% of their revenues come from search and by extension, advertising.
The fact' that til this day, they still haven't evolved from the "throwing shit at the wall then at the fan" strat which explains how they have fumbled so much so quickly.
- Google's Gemini Headaches Spur $90B Selloff
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Our Company Is Doing So Well That You're All Fired
Yeah. The Google Graveyard really shows how far this can go.
https://killedbygoogle.com
The punchline is that in addition to hundreds of failed hobby projects, their stock is doing great. Monopoly power is a helluva drug.
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