Closure Compiler in JavaScript • Hacker News Board

yegortimoshenko wrote: post #3

xntrk wrote: post #2

Does anyone know what this means for clojurescript?

It makes a completely self-hosted ClojureScript compiler possible.

clojurescript still requires clojure for macros, no?

Re: Closure Compiler in JavaScript

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Post by matthewbauer » Tue, Dec 06, 2016, 6:11 PM UTC

xntrk wrote: post #5

yegortimoshenko wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It makes a completely self-hosted ClojureScript compiler possible.

is java a requirement though? or was it only a requirement because of google closure?

Java is no longer required.

Re: Closure Compiler in JavaScript

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Post by icholy » Tue, Dec 06, 2016, 6:11 PM UTC

SpencerWood wrote: post #12

Why would I use this over babel?

They do different things.

Re: Closure Compiler in JavaScript

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Post by aeosynth » Tue, Dec 06, 2016, 6:12 PM UTC

SpencerWood wrote: post #12

Why would I use this over babel?

you like lisp

Re: Closure Compiler in JavaScript

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Post by vikeri » Tue, Dec 06, 2016, 6:13 PM UTC

SpencerWood wrote: post #12

Why would I use this over babel?

The advanced compilation mode does some pretty powerful dead code removal and minification [1]. I guess that is available from plugins in Babel as well but Google has been using it for Gmail, Google.com etc, so it's quite battle tested.

[1]: https://developers.google.com/closure/compiler/docs/api-tuto...

Re: Closure Compiler in JavaScript

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Post by triangleman » Tue, Dec 06, 2016, 6:14 PM UTC

wehadfun wrote: post #13

offtopic: googleblog.com vs blog.google?

could be a security measure.