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Google Releases Open Source JavaScript Tools

Posted by timothy on 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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  1. My gawd by Anonymous Coward · · 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.

    1. Re:My gawd by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      do you have a double ended fleshlight? we could fuck it together and cum as we look into each others eyes

    2. Re:My gawd by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      Actually JavaScript is a rather good language in many ways, though it does have some flaws. Give "JavaScript, the Good Parts" a quick read some time.

      That's like reading a book titled Morris Marina: The Best Parts only to discover that the best parts are:

      • Because it's so slow, you'll never get a speeding ticket.
      • It can be used to educate the next generation on how not to build cars.
      • Other cars won't be made to feel jealous.
      • If your car breaks, just grab the nearest drill and a bunch of rusted scrap metal. Your careless and forceful patchwork will be better than the original build quality.
      • Loose fitting parts all around the car will help ensure that car doors, hinges and other moving parts never rust closed for eternity.
      • Brakes and other safety devices overcomplicate the design of the car and make it heavier and harder to use.
      • Guaranteed to be the worst car in the world no matter which country you're in, what the current year is or what colour it is.
      • It's easy to rebuild and design a similar car because you don't have to worry about looking up standards, papers, textbooks, equations or any other time consuming paperwork.
  2. Re:Nice... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Get some priorities, people! Once again, a muslim goes on a murderous rampage and you want to talk about javascript?