Comment by bzbarsky

7 years ago

> 1. NaCl/PNacl

In favor of WebAssembly, which is a much better tech in terms of actually being able to achieve interop, no?

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fooker  7 years ago

No, not really.

I have contributed towards Chrome's implementation of PNacl and wasm a few years ago. Wasm is still not anywhere close to the capabilities of PNacl and has all the signs of a 'design by committee' specification. I will be (pleasantly) surprised if wasm gains more traction.

  • bzbarsky  7 years ago

    A major problem with PNaCl, as far as I can tell, was the Pepper dependency. And, again as far as I can tell, Google never came up with a credible plan for solving that problem (e.g. by creating an actual implementable spec for Pepper).