web tech delicacies
HipHop for PHP from Facebook hit the streets several days ago resulting in dozens of posts about the technology. Let’s see what the PHP community says:
Marco Tabini enlists the HipHop features and encourages using it
the echolibre blog talks about possible security/buffer overflow implications, and mentions similar available solutions
Ilia Alshanetsky provides an excellent and thorough overview: [...]
Dmitry Baranovskiy, the creator of the Raphaël and gRaphaël JavaScript libraries has serious criticism against the Google Closure JS library.
According to Dmitry:
“It’s a JavaScript library written by Java developers who clearly don’t get JavaScript.”
poorly optimized loops and unoptimized switch statements
memory caching with unlimited size: “I’m not sure what this pattern is called in Java, but [...]
Google released Closure, the library and toolset that powers Docs and other Google products.
Closure includes:
Closure Compiler – removes dead code and rewrites and minimizes what’s left, checks syntax, variable references and types, and warns about common JavaScript pitfalls.
Closure Library – a JS library with widgets, controls, lower-level utilities for DOM manipulation, server communication, animation, data [...]
