Yea it's a mess. Google is going in an interesting direction with Native Client, Pepper, Go-lang and ChromeOS. I remember them (might have been Brin) saying we

Yea it's a mess. Google is going in an interesting direction with Native Client, Pepper, Go-lang and ChromeOS. I remember them (might have been Brin) saying web and desktop will merge and looking at Native Client, the capabilities should merge as well. Mozilla has their own simplified systems programming language, Rust. They're cooperating on with Google on Pepper so far. In theory browsers could just become agreed upon APIs between operating systems instead of the markup/VM legacy mess they are now.