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The combination of NaCl support and Objective C linking support make me wonder whether we will see Go creep towards being an officially "blessed" and privileged

by gtaylor 13y ago

The combination of NaCl support and Objective C linking support make me wonder whether we will see Go creep towards being an officially "blessed" and privileged language (like Java and C+NDK) for Android development in the future. I would assume that the NaCl support means that we'll be able to write things for Chromebooks relatively easily?

pokstad 13y ago
"NaCl supports 32-bit ARM, but we have no plans to support it."
- gtaylor 13y ago
  There are upcoming ARMv8 cores that are 64-bit. I doubt we'll see Go as a fully "endorsed" Android language any time soon, but by the time it potentially happens, 64-bit ARM may be ubiquitous.
enneff 13y ago
No. The NaCl stuff is not about Chrome. It's about sandboxed execution in other contexts. For instance, it powers the Go Playground: http://blog.golang.org/playground http://blog.golang.org/playground
- gtaylor 13y ago
  Sure it's about Chrome. "Native Client is a sandbox for running compiled C and C++ code in the browser efficiently and securely, independent of the user's operating system." https://developers.google.com/native-client/dev/ https://developers.google.com/native-client/dev/
  - enneff 13y ago
    The Go NaCl stuff is not about Chrome.