Chromium devs want the browser to talk to devices, computers directly
Could we please just fix native software development, so it doesn&#x27;t suck, rather than adding the kitchen sink to web browsers?<p>Web pages and JavaScript are the only universally trusted medium for sharing information and simple software. Making it possible for news websites to touch ethernet&#x2F;usb&#x2F;serial&#x2F;gpu compromises that. Same goes for optimizations ilke JIT&#x27;ing and WebAssembly which have certainly done a great job making it possible for Gawker to reprogram the microcode in AMD K8 CPUs. Has the long tail of browser innovations made the web go faster? No. It went faster in 2010 IMHO. Whatever performance glut the geniuses who work on Chrome end up creating, it&#x27;ll just get gobbled by more aggressive display ads and things like wild-eyed web component frameworks.