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		boucher on Nov 12, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google Closure: How not to write Javascript I'd say it isn't. As you said, most of the problems are minor. Some of the performance assumptions are false. Very little of this seems to be of any consequence.

jomohke on Nov 12, 2009 [–]

Agreed. I was expecting a critique of the library API. JavaScript APIs (including, especially, the browser APIs) have a long history of being overly-verbose, and designed as if it was Java.

Has anyone used the closure library API enough to comment?

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