SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. -- If there is one topic that seems to get Java programmers excited, it's the question of whether to include a new feature called closures in the next version of Java. Advocates ...

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.

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For those who are not familiar with closures, Martin Fowler‘s post Closure is perhaps the definitive explanation of what constitutes a closure. Fowler states about closures: “Essentially a closure is ...

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. -- If there is one topic that seems to get Java programmers excited, it's the question of whether to include a new feature called closures in the next version of Java. Advocates ...