Sam Gammon

this looks fantastic @yannic and much cleaner than my approach

can this get merged? :)

if so i can begin contributing my fork stuff downstream, which is built on top of this and other PRs.

I'm using this change downstream in a fork @gkdn. I'd love to get it updated so we can eventually track with mainline.

Would you guys welcome an updated contribution here? @Yannic may be busy in which case I'm happy to roll up my sleeves and give it a try.

@gkdn i can see your point and i understand, that, from J2CL et. al's perspective, Soy and GSS might be seen as "extras." `rules_closure` is, in essence, the _only_ working...

@gkdn, sorry, one last point. i _do_ think this stack of tools is deeply useful -- Soy and GSS included -- for developing chrome extensions, and should be kept on...

@gkdn fair point re/moving-not-deprecating and i am not against that at all in principal, but to clarify, i'm concerned about what that move would mean in practice. to an outside...

@gkdn, yes, this may shock you, but we have even less bandwidth to add features to google's software _outside_ google than google has inside google unfortunately, as crazy as it...

in other words, in my humble opinion, when a user comes along to google and says, "please, could we get this tiny feature? there is no use case inside google...