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>We will remove support for PNaCl in the first quarter of 2018 While the new Google Earth with PNaCl was just introduced, a large engineering cost for a semest
by r0anne 9y ago
>We will remove support for PNaCl in the first quarter of 2018
While the new Google Earth with PNaCl was just introduced, a large engineering cost for a semester-lived technology! Too bad
- johncolanduoni 9y agoThe code base is almost certainly in C or C++. The parts that use the APIs will need to be changed, but it won't need anywhere close to a full rewrite.
- nnethercote 9y agoPlenty of people were left scratching their heads when the new Google Earth was introduced, precisely because it was clear that PNaCl's days were numbered. I think the likely explanation is that Google is a large company with numerous departments and those departments don't always pull in the same direction. I imagine some people within Google weren't happy with the Google Earth announcement.