The Saga of the Closure Compiler, and Why TypeScript Won

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  • closure-stylesheets

    Discontinued A CSS+ transpiler that lints, optimizes, and I18n-izes

  • Part of Closure Tools was also an early CSS transpiler called "Closure Stylesheets" that behaves very much like the CSS 'preprocessor' languages that followed it https://github.com/google/closure-stylesheets

    It's easy to see this set of JavaScript and CSS tools as ahead of their time, and the first of the particular kind of toolset that followed in the years after it.

  • React

    The library for web and native user interfaces.

  • Looks like they're using Babel and Rollup.

    https://github.com/facebook/react/blob/main/scripts/rollup/b...

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    Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

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  • ccl

    Clozure Common Lisp

  • Flutter

    Flutter makes it easy and fast to build beautiful apps for mobile and beyond

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