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Google opens up its JavaScript development toolbox (Closure) to all (arstechnica.com)
32 points by swolchok on Nov 7, 2009 | hide | past | favorite | 6 comments


A lot of comments @ https://qht.co/item?id=924426


This is huge. I've been wanting Closure as OSS ever since I interned at Google. The compiler is optimizing -- it is not a simple obfuscator like YUI Compressor.


YUI Compressor is not a simple obfuscator. It does quite a few safe optimizations, but it doesn't do anything that could break your code.


YUI is not just an obfuscator--it also minifies and dramatically reduces file sizes. Closure seems to outperform it in most cases, but to say that it's a "simple obfuscator" is a great disservice.


You're right, I meant "minifier".


Looks very very cool. Unfortunately quite a few of the examples didn't work when I tried them in Safari. Not sure why :/




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