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The Closure Compiler is the only reason I have Java installed, it's that good. And IMHO, a lot of the bloated JS projects nowadays would really profit from its dead code removal...

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In case you haven't heard, you can now use it without Java https://developers.googleblog.com/2016/08/closure-compiler-i...

That's actually really amazing - and I didn't know that, thank you!

It's extremely slow compared to the Java version though.

I think it's about 2x slower.

they're the same in name only. but not in perf and not in output.

https://github.com/Rich-Harris/butternut/issues/35

I don't see where in that issue it says output changes from java to js? Other than the runtime option

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