I guess it's news that it's on GitHub?<p><pre><code> Google's phone number handling library (code.google.com)
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<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8574080" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8574080</a>
Google also made a library for handling mailing addresses: <a href="https://github.com/googlei18n/libaddressinput" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/googlei18n/libaddressinput</a>
It seems quite strange to me that one should "[m]anually port any changes of the Java code to the JavaScript code" when updating the JavaScript library; the JavaScript version is so heavily Java-fied that there's hardly any point it being written in JavaScript in the first place, so couldn't they just have used GWT?
Also a great Python port which we use heavily:
<a href="https://github.com/daviddrysdale/python-phonenumbers" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/daviddrysdale/python-phonenumbers</a>