Google also opened the source code of its own JavaScript compression tools. The library, called Closure, includes an extraordinarily diverse assortment of capabilities with functionality ranging ...

Google’s Closure compiler, for optimizing and transpling JavaScript, no longer needs Java to run. Instead, Java source code is compiled to JavaScript so it can run under Node.js or in a browser.

The Google Code blog announced the launch of a compiler, library, inspector and templates for sites to use to improve their javascript usage. The tools were “all started as 20% projects and hundreds ...