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has a list - just eyeballing it, it seems like about half of the major javascript apps from google are GWT. (the other half would likely be closure)

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There is an overlap: GWT itself uses closure.

That's interesting. I've done my fair share of GWT development, and I didn't know about this, so I tried to find more info.

I've searched through the GWT source code, and I found no mention of the closure library (closure tools / closure compiler). There are obviously some mentions of javascript "closures", but that's all I found.

According to https://groups.google.com/group/closure-library-discuss/brow... , no code is shared between GWT and the closure library.

Where does GWT use Closure?

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