Next-Gen Web Apps: Google unleashes Native Client into Chrome
Without PNaCl, this feels nothing but regressive, for at least three reasons:<p>1) JS is awesome precisely because of the common denominator. But because Chrome said so, devs should go back to triple-testing everything and dusting off their assembly debugger toolchains?<p>2) With more and more happening on cloud servers, JS engines being mature, and clients just getting faster, the need for that ultimate level of performance feels ever more irrelevant.<p>3) ActiveX long ago taught us several reasons for why auto-downloading and running native code is a bad idea. And even <i>if</i> Google manages to keep their implementation airtight and standards-conforming, what happens when NaCl takes off and Microsoft takes a crack at it?