For me the real meaning of this is that support for new features in closure library will stop in its actual form in the years to come. Only bugs will be corrected, no more. This is already the case in a sence I think, because before Dart, GWT was viewed as the new official way to make new web applications at google.
Closure library is not where google put effort for new developpments. GWT somewhat failed on some aspects and now google is betting on Dart. For short term, this change nothing to us. In the long term we might have to choose between staying on a legacy library (closure library in JS form) or compile to Dart instead of JS. For raw clojure script code, this would not be very important. As the semantics could be preserved. But call to APIs might change quite a lot. New APIs under Dart might have really different behavior than actual closure library. Like in a sence GWT API is already totally different beast than closure library. Long term this might mean that instead of compilling to raw JS and having a dependancy on closure library, we might choose to compile to raw Dart and use new Dart APIs. In a sence to keep with the with the latest trend and benefits of latest features. This is not the only choice, as long as the closure compiler from google is working and there are not too many bugs in closure library, there is no real problem. As this is open source, nothing prevent us to fix things ourselves if needed... Maybe we are more interrested by the compiler itself and by the low level closure API providing access to all browser features (DOM...) than using "cutting edge" API that will not be idiomatic clojure anyway. If we want more idiomatic libraries, we will have to make them ourselves anyways. My 2 cents... On Oct 11, 4:43 pm, Timothy Washington <twash...@gmail.com> wrote: > > What I have in mind is not related to Dart, but to the support of > > Closure Tools from Google. > > > Will Dart "javascript compatibility layer/javascript compilation" for > > non-Chrom(e)(ium) browsers include the Closure Tools Suite ? > > > 2011/10/10 David Nolen <dnolen.li...@gmail.com>: -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
