Native Client in Chrome Beta

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Marco Leise" <Marco.Leise at gmx.de> wrote in message 
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>"By not adopting a technology capable of competing with native apps on
iOS, Android, Windows, and Mac, web vendors are preventing important
classes of applications such as high-end games and simulations from moving 
to the open web."

That actually brings up an interestng point I hadn't really thought of 
before:

I've always liked the idea of using native code instead of JS, because it 
just makes so much more sense on a technical level. But, if something better 
than JS, like NaCl, is adopted on the web, something that can compete with 
real apps in efficiency, then that will only further encourage people to hop 
onto Google's bullshit web-as-an-OS agenda. Even if NaCl is universally 
adopted and completely eliminates the efficiency issues, the web will still 
be horrid as a so-called "applicatins platform" for other reasons, like UI 
(a big one), reliability, centralization, user-ownership, privacy... And 
those issues aren't realistically fixable within the confines of a web 
browser. So I think it's best if such a thing as NaCl *doesn't* get adopted, 
since it would only further encourage the biggest plague of the 21st 
century.