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This seems like more of a ChromeOS move to me, so that you can run native code on Atom and X86 machines. The knock on ChromeOS is always that it's "just a brows
by pkulak 13y ago
This seems like more of a ChromeOS move to me, so that you can run native code on Atom and X86 machines. The knock on ChromeOS is always that it's "just a browser". I seriously doubt anyone is going to write their Etsy storefront in NaCl. The benefit here, of course, is that if someone does write the next Photoshop for ChromeOS machines, it should also run fine in OS X, Windows and Linux. Seems like a win for portability to me.
- vertis 13y agoOn the other hand, I can imagine that there is a set of people that want to run client side and yet not expose even obfusticated javascript.
- cliffbean 13y agoPNaCL and asm.js are roughly the same in terms of "exposing" the code in this sense. Both can be easily disassembled/prettified using readily tools readily available today.
- 0x0 13y agoThat worked out well for Java.
- ryanackley 13y agoNo, but it did for Flash.
- 0x0 13y agoLet's just say I'm pretty happy I'm not maintaining any products built with Flex/Air.
- pkulak 13y agoNo, but it did for LLVM.
- csmuk 13y agoAh yes. No one ever remembers JavaOS and what a shit crock that was.