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The Difference Between JavaScript and the Google Closing Compiler

All of the code that is known to be content and compatible with Is still running through advanced like usual. The packages are instead run through simple optimizations which is still better than most of the other JS tools. It's still probably produces smaller output than webpack say but it's not as aggressive So so you get less breakage. Yeah And so it sounds like there's just kind of a different philosophy there between the Google closure compiler andThe rest of the JavaScript world in terms of what they what they want to do toJavaScript. Can you kind of talk about you know the philosophical differences there? Sure, so the main difference is that the Google closure compilation is meant for optimizing your whole program

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