Whats the difference between curl and requirejs? about curl HOT 3 CLOSED

Hey Lance,

Funny you should ask! A similar question was just asked on the requirejs google group. :) http://groups.google.com/group/requirejs/browse_thread/thread/9e25322d9ae2be0b

RequireJS runs in more places than curl.js, including WebWorkers and node.js. It's also got more "battle testing" than curl.js, which may mean it has less bugs around edge cases. curl.js is also missing a few important features, such as preloading of implicit dependencies and support for AMD-wrapped commonjs modules. These are both coming in version 0.6 (late next week).

On the plus side, curl.js...

• is as small as 1/4 the size of RequireJS -- even when bundled with the js! and domReady! plugins it is still less than half the size.
• is faster at loading modules than RequireJS, but only meaningfully so in IE6-8 or in development (non-build) environments.
• supports pluggable module loaders for formats other than AMD (we're working on unwrapped CJSM/1.1 and CJSM/2.0, for instance).
• supports configuration-based dependency management via IOC containers like wire.js (via cram.js).
• supports inlining of css (via cram.js) and concatenation of css (via cram.js 0.3 by end of year)

If you're thinking of trying curl.js, I recommend you wait until 0.6 in case you're depending on some of the features coming in that release.

Regards,

-- John

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Where's the "like" button? :)

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@silvas I know, huh? :)

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