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I wish they would have started with LLVM or some other bytecode rather than x86 but this is a huge step towards having other languages in the browser.
by ghempton 16y ago
I wish they would have started with LLVM or some other bytecode rather than x86 but this is a huge step towards having other languages in the browser.
- stcredzero 16y agoGo?
- ineol 16y agoGo already works in NaCl
- chadaustin 16y agoGuess what. They support LLVM too! http://nativeclient.googlecode.com/svn/data/site/pnacl.pdf http://nativeclient.googlecode.com/svn/data/site/pnacl.pdf
- wvenable 16y agoI understand the reasoning behind wanting LLVM but targeting x86 first actually makes a lot of sense. It differentiates this project from Silverlight, JavaFX, and Flash for one thing. But going as low-level as possible is a great way to start the platform and ensure that it's secure and free from cruft at the very bottom. It gives them a solid basis to begin adding on the abstraction layers like LLVM and binaries for other CPUs without settling on any one technology.