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by raspasov 1722 days ago
Do you consider Google Closure sufficiently good obfuscation?
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I think closure compiler's 'obfuscation' is an incidental part of its minification passes.
Got it. Thank you.

I've been using the Google Closure compiler for many years with advanced and every time I look at the code output I'm like "there's no way in a 100 years I would be able to de-obfuscate back to my own code to a great extent". But I don't specialize in reverse engineering, so I might be missing something big.

Expecting obfuscation to increase security is a fool's errand. However expecting it to cut down on re-use of your code then it will no doubt work.
personally, I find the code it outputs to be easier to understand often than the source because it simplifies a lot of stuff into the most abstract logic. I think it takes some getting used to for your brain to connect those pieces, though
Fair enough, thank you.

I guess ultra-shortening the names into a,b,c,d,e, etc makes it superficially hard to understand what's going on but I agree on your point about abstract logic.