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   by roarroar 13y ago

   Dark Souls is a bigger, less polished version of Demon's Souls. It has a problem with hidden information that can only be discovered through trial-and-error. Demon's Souls was like this too, but the scope was small enough that it
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   by roarroar 13y ago

   NaCl is not a portability layer. It is a security layer. PNaCl is a portability layer, built inside NaCl more-or-less in the manner I just described, but with all the overheads and limitations of NaCl (which are real). So NaCl is in total a
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   by roarroar 13y ago

   I'm aware of all this. I'm not saying it would be easy - and the belief that high speed Javascript is necessary is one reason we've been held back for so long. Nobody should be writing a browser in Javascript (when I mentione
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   by roarroar 13y ago

   HTML and Javascript are a horrible basis for a computing platform, which is why in the end they have resorted to providing a tiny, statically typed subset of Javascript plus some graphics primitives. And now the primitives exist, comically,
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   by roarroar 13y ago

   Why not go all the way and move the rendering engine out of the privileged base of the system? Why is all this HTML and Javascript garbage in "kernel land" anyway? Why not make your browser kernel concerned solely with providing a