The saga of the Closure compiler, and why TypeScript won
> Unless you've worked on frontend at Google at some point in the past 20 years, it's unlikely that you've ever encountered the Closure Compiler<p>Unless, of course you were at the forefront of frontend stuff like a decade ago and Closure Compiler was the absolute best for a long time at dead-tree elimination and compressing JS artifacts. Or, you're a developer using ClojureScript. Or...<p>> It occupied a similar niche to TypeScript, but TypeScript has absolutely, definitively won.<p>Huh? The Closure Compiler is so much more than just "JavaScript but with types". It also provides minification, provided a namespacing system, additional standard library and such.