On: Closure Compiler in JavaScript

[paulddraper]

I'm not sure this is what Gosling had in mind when he said "compile once, run anywhere" :P

[moolcool → paulddraper]

It's 2016, the mantra now is "Compile thee times, run slowly in a handful of web browsers"

[kevincox → paulddraper]

To nitpick they are compiling separately for the js version ;)

[paulddraper → kevincox]

Though if you consider JS the universal runtime (Node, Nashorn, browser), then it is just once.