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Chrome Packaged Apps are essentially a Chrome extension with some extra features that can run outside a browser instance. As such, scripting would be limited t
by ecspike 14y ago
Chrome Packaged Apps are essentially a Chrome extension with some extra features that can run outside a browser instance.
As such, scripting would be limited to languages that can run in JS. So if he allows plugins, it would be JS, CoffeeScript, or possibly Emscripten.
- jlgreco 14y agoThat is what I suspected. Kind of makes the idea of using that sort of system to create generic modern developer tools DOA I think. Definitely so if it means I lose Vim's ! command; I couldn't live without that.
- ecspike 14y agoI agree. You can make unitaskers like sprite packer/unpackers image quick editors/resizers and the like but anything comprehensive is going to be hard.