IMHO: Horrible idea, brilliant execution – Google’s “Portable Native Client (NaCl)” blog.chromium.org/2013/11/po…
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@stilkov how would you make big c++ apps run in the browser? Let's say quake?
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@dankurka That’s exactly what I meant. Why would I want to do that?
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@stilkov So using SSH to work from my chromebook is a bad idea and I should not do this?
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@dankurka You mean it can’t do that without NaCl? ;-)
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@stilkov You should not reimplement software, if a compiler can do the job. SSH is a good example for that. I got plenty more.
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@dankurka As usual, we don’t agree on the basics. Who came up with the idea of re-implementing ssh? Why would it have to run in the browser?

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@stilkov If you look at Google, Mozilla, MS, they are all working on the web as a platform for what we now call apps. => Firefox OS....
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@dankurka Vast differences between their approaches. My money is on Mozilla – only ones I believe to be in line with what works on the Web
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@stilkov Well you want ssh (and other stuff) on a chromebook or other device, a browser is just a runtime like the android VM nothing else.
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@stilkov This is where the web is heading for years, look at PNaCl, asm.js. A universal runtime on HTML5 or "native" for more performance.
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