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23 mentions on Hacker News by 19 people: 4 stories, 19 comments · first 2016-02-22 · latest 2025-09-28

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  1. …to implement the Microsoft/Google/KDE/etc behavior, Google conveniently has this open sourced: https://github.com/google/closure-library/blob/b312823ec5f84... How did I find it? Well I wanted to implement it a while ago and I found it in…
    comment by kccqzy · 2025-09-28 · in When I say “alphabetical order”, I mean “alphabetical order”
  2. …Compiler]( https://github.com/google/closure-compiler ) is still active. The [Closure Library]( https://github.com/google/closure-library ) is done. Very confusing, I know
    comment by myko · 2025-07-06 · in ClojureScript from First Principles [video]
  3. …an email client that Gmail users need to feel familiar on every keystroke... then following https://github.com/google/closure-library/blob/master/closur... line-for-line is still the gold standard, because it grew from the same codebase as…
    comment by btown · 2025-05-16 · in ClojureScript 1.12.42
  4. …an email client that Gmail users need to feel familiar on every keystroke... then following https://github.com/google/closure-library/blob/master/closur... line-for-line is still the gold standard, because it grew from the same codebase as…
    comment by btown · 2024-08-30 · in Google Closure Library has been archived
  5. It was announced a few months ago: https://github.com/google/closure-library/issues/1214
    comment by corentin88 · 2024-08-29 · in Google Closure Library has been archived
  6. …which has traditionally used the compiler and related bits of the Google Closure library. [0] https://github.com/google/closure-library/issues/1214 [1] https://clojurescript.org/news/2024-01-24-release
    comment by dannyobrien · 2024-08-29 · in Google Closure Library has been archived
  7. …feels like Gmail, warts and all, you can just use a pre-compiled version of the library and follow https://github.com/google/closure-library/blob/master/closur... within a more modern codebase!
    comment by btown · 2024-07-25 · in Node.js adds experimental support for TypeScript
  8. Folks haven't used this since like 2012, no? https://github.com/google/closure-library is being sunset in August of this year. And here, https://developers.google.com/closure/compiler/docs/gettings... : > Closure compiler service is…
    comment by whalesalad · 2024-03-17 · in Google Closure
  9. …guaranteeing this optimization is available, even if the StringBuffer itself is ever shared. [1] https://github.com/google/closure-library/blob/master/closur...
    comment by paulddraper · 2023-12-07 · in For processing strings, streams in C++ can be slow
  10. …inside Google) discoverable on the public internet is. The earliest I've found is from Nov 2009: https://github.com/google/closure-library/blame/11ed104958a2... . (The second closest I've found in another repo is in RE2 from Mar 2010,…
    comment by joatmon-snoo · 2022-12-14 · in Golink: A private shortlink service for tailnets
  11. …of minimizing breaking changes be embraced by everyone who currently rely on Google's Closure? [0] https://github.com/google/closure-library/blob/master/LICENS...
    comment by _e · 2021-04-07 · in ClojureScript 1.10.844
  12. Do Google still use their closure library + compiler on all their big properties? https://github.com/google/closure-library/ I'm learning Clojure at the moment, don't think I would have heard of Google Closure otherwise
    comment by slifin · 2019-02-11 · in None of my projects want to be SPAs
  13. …has bad memory performance for for-in loops. So instead it implement custom key-value structures https://github.com/google/closure-library/blob/master/closur...
    comment by paulddraper · 2018-09-05 · in Measuring the memory usage of popular web apps
  14. And in the newest installment, https://github.com/google/closure-library/issues/883 is UA-sniffing that is now preventing Firefox from aligning with all other browsers on whether arrow keys fire keypress events, which causes _other_ Google…
    comment by bzbarsky · 2018-03-08 · in History of the browser user-agent string (2008)
  15. …to one of them knows what to do - goog.dom is Closure module provided by Google Closure library ( https://github.com/google/closure-library ), which is dependency of ClojureScript. Compiler will look for goog/dom.js file if no .cljs or…
    comment by juhoteperi · 2017-07-12 · in ClojureScript Is Not An Island: Integrating Node Modules
  16. How about Google's Closure Library: https://github.com/google/closure-library The code, imo, is some of the highest quality js I've seen. It is also incredibly comprehensive and easily as complex. High quality != shipping fast. They are…
    comment by sloppycee · 2017-07-07 · in Mastering Programming (2016)
  17. …hand Google Closure Library has a very robust implementation brought from labs in 2014 by Nanaze https://github.com/google/closure-library/commit/74b27adf7 . It's heavily used on large real world async applications, such as Gmail, G+,…
    comment by eduardolundgren · 2016-12-20 · in Cancelable Promises: Why was this proposal withdrawn?
  18. …identify this object in the set. Note how goog.structs.Set.getKey_ is used in the add() method: https://github.com/google/closure-library/blob/v20160125/clo... This is how the library obtains the unique ID of an object:…
    comment by aaco · 2016-03-09 · in Data Structures in JavaScript
  19. …it’s pretty ugly, too. Worth mentioning some that do use prototype objects, such as Closure Library https://github.com/google/closure-library
    comment by tantalor · 2016-02-22 · in Samson and JavaScript