Google Releases Open Source JavaScript Tools

Posted by timothy on Thursday November 5, 2009 @11:24AM from the see-not-evil dept.

Dan Jones writes "Google has open sourced several of its key JavaScript application development tools, hoping that they will prove useful for external programmers to build faster Web applications. According to Google, by enabling and allowing developers to use the same tools that Google uses, they can not only build rich applications but also make the Web really fast. The Closure JavaScript compiler and library are used as the standard Javascript library for pretty much any large, public Web application that Google is serving today, including some of its most popular Web applications, including Gmail, Google Docs and Google Maps. Google has also released Closure Templates which are designed to automate the dynamic creation of HTML. The announcement comes a few months after Google released and open sourced the NX server."

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My gawd by Anonymous Coward · 2009-11-05 11:39 · Score: 0, Troll

Why are people investing so much in a fundamentally flawed scripting language that has almost no use at all outside the browser and that Palm Pre thing that is basically a browser in a plastic case?

yeah, do everything from inside a browser because every day 'users' seem unable to deal with anything that doesn't behave like a Web based interface. JavaScript is so inefficient and so many hacks are required to do anything useful we will probably see computers with JavaScript co-processors and Intel Core 3's with extra instructions to help cut through the cruft.