Google NativeClient

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Julio César Carrascal Urquijo" <jcarrascal at gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:d8f7d28627478cb29007fbb3240 at news.digitalmars.com...
> "At Google we're always trying to make the web a better platform. That's 
> why we're working on Native Client, a technology that aims to give web 
> developers access to the full power of the client's CPU while maintaining 
> the browser neutrality, OS portability and safety that people expect from 
> web applications."
>
> http://google-code-updates.blogspot.com/2008/12/native-client-technology-for-running.html
>
> Looks like Google is *trying* to do ActiveX the right way (For x86 at 
> least). It let's you write native code that runs under some kind of 
> supervisor inside the browser. I think this proves Walter's point that you 
> can do in native code all that you can do with a VM.
>
> How hard would it be to make D run inside NativeClient? Seems like a good 
> project for the holidays.
>

This sounds enormously interesting to me (if IE gets supports for it). I've 
been doing a lot of web work and can't stand a lot of the languages I've 
been forced to use (still need to get around to looking at haxe, though). 
I'll have to read up on that.