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by mjaniczek 3247 days ago
I believe you can use Google Closure Compiler on Elm JS files with great effect the same as Leiningen uses it on ClojureScript JS files. (Although most people probably use uglifyjs instead.)

But of course ClojureScript's JS is generated carefully so as to be better optimizable by Google Closure Compiler, and that's not the case with Elm. IIRC, in version 0.19 Elm will change it's JS so that it's better optimizable by uglifyjs.
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hellofunk 3247 days ago
> I believe you can use Google Closure Compiler on Elm JS files with great effect

No, you can't use the advanced optimizations from Closure compiler in Elm. This is unlikely to change any time soon because Elm's compiler emits JS that directly violates one of the restrictions that Closure requires for advanced optimizations, namely the referencing of field names as a string.

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mjaniczek 3247 days ago
Good to know, thanks!
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