*   <li>The {@link Predicate} returned by this method catches {@link ClassCastException} and
   *       {@link NullPointerException}.
   *   <li>Code that chains multiple predicates together (especially negations) may be more readable
   *       using this method. For example, {@code not(in(target))} is generally more readable than
   *       {@code not(target::contains)}.

   * on {@link Platform} so that we can have different behavior in GWT.
   *
   * <p>This implementation tries to be smart in a number of ways. It recognizes cases where the
   * negation is cheaper to precompute than the matcher itself; it tries to build small hash tables
   * for matchers that only match a few characters, and so on. In the worst-case scenario, it