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		lupire 11 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google CEO says more than a quarter of the company... Google does not write much publicly available JavaScript. They wrote their own special flavor. (Same for any hugel legacy operation)

bilekas 11 months ago [–]

Can we get some more info on what you're reffering to ?

jkaptur 11 months ago | [–]

They're probably talking about Closure Compiler type annotations [0], which never really took off outside Google, but (imo) were pretty great in the days before TypeScript. (Disclosure: Googler)

0. https://github.com/google/closure-compiler/wiki/Annotating-J...

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