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closure-compiler reviews and mentions

• Google CEO says more than a quarter of the company's new code is created by AI
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 31 Oct 2024

  They're probably talking about Closure Compiler type annotations [0], which never really took off outside Google, but (imo) were pretty great in the days before TypeScript. (Disclosure: Googler)

  0. https://github.com/google/closure-compiler/wiki/Annotating-J...

• Node.js adds experimental support for TypeScript
  20 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Jul 2024

  This can give you some hints of the current status of closure compiler:

  https://github.com/google/closure-compiler/issues/2731

  I happen to know this because we have some old projects that depend on this and are working hard to get rid of the dependency.

  I wish Google either updates it or just mark the whole thing deprecated -- the world has already moved on anyway. Relating this to Google's recent cost cutting, and seeing some other Google's open source projects more or less getting abandoned, I have to say that today's Google is definitely not the same company from two decades ago.

• Figma's Journey to TypeScript
  5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 4 May 2024

  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.

• TypeScript Might Not Be Your God: Case Study of Migration from TS to JSDoc
  4 projects | dev.to | 16 Jan 2024

  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.

• Minify and Gzip (2022)
  2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Jul 2023

  Closure Compiler follows the same line of thinking:

  https://github.com/google/closure-compiler/wiki/FAQ#closure-...

• Svelte is migrating from TypeScript to JSDoc
  7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 May 2023
• Do any engines or optimizers product TS-specific performance gains?
  3 projects | /r/typescript | 24 Mar 2023

  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?
  5 projects | /r/node | 25 Nov 2022
• What does it mean?: *Template parameter* in Google style guide
  2 projects | /r/learnjavascript | 5 Nov 2022

  The @template tag is supported by Google Closure Compiler

• Google announces a new OS written in Rust
  11 projects | /r/programming | 18 Oct 2022
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