NaCl stable ABI

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Peter Alexander" <peter.alexander.au at gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:j1asck$81d$1 at digitalmars.com...
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> The games industry has been crying out for something like NaCl for a long 
> time. It is exactly what we want:
>
> - Ability to launch games within browser without a plugin download
> - Platform independent ABI
> - No f*cking Javascript (performance will never match C++)
> - Safe (no need for end users to worry)
>
>
> JavaScript for high-quality games is a non-starter. It's too slow.

Browser for "high-quality" games is a non-starter. What idiot would rather 
play a game inside a damn browser? You could have all the speed in the 
world, and the browser would still be completely unsuitable for anything 
beyond dinky little popcap-style shit. We've had Quake playable in the 
browser for awhile now: and who the hell actually plays it that way? And who 
actually wants to? It's nothing but a "Gee whiz, look what we can do in a 
browser!" dick-measuring contest.

The whole premise of games in a browser is idiotic. What is needed is 
0install and an OS-level security model that's actually good, or something 
along those lines. None of this Google-mentality "pretending the browser is 
a platform" bullshit.

The browser is a complete strawman here; cramming games into it is solving 
the wrong issue. It's exactly the old web-app trend all over again: People 
thought web-based stuff made deployment easier (in a few different ways: not 
all of which were actually true) and thought that it was safe/secure (which, 
frankly, has never really been true). So instead of *soving those issues* by 
putting their focus on improving deployment of *real* apps (via something 
like 0install) and pushing for improved OS security models (via something 
like selinux maybe? Seriously how much push is actualyl behind that? Not 
nearly enough), the morons started cramming apps into the browser (well, 
that and Valve's Steam abomination) and consequently fucked up computing 
while *still* not solving half the issues they thought they were solving 
anyway.

If the games industry is crying out for faster in-browser computing, then 
what they're asking for is a faster horse. But it figures: I mean this is 
the stupid motherfuck industry that's spent the last ten years completely 
ignoring who they're *supposed* to be (***VIDEOGAME*** developers) and 
instead running around as a bunch of goddamn graphics-whore, "storytime", 
Pixar/Hollywood wannabe, IP-fellatiatng, fucking posers. Especially the 
absolutely disgraceful graphics-whore and "Pixar/Hollywood wannabe" parts. 
Those two in particular can't be over-emphasized.