Next-Gen Web Apps: Google unleashes Native Client into Chrome
Without PNaCl, this feels nothing but regressive, for at least three reasons: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?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.3) ActiveX long ago taught us several reasons for why auto-downloading and running native code is a bad idea. And even if Google manages to keep their implementation airtight and standards-conforming, what happens when NaCl takes off and Microsoft takes a crack at it?