On Thursday, 18 June 2015 at 22:07:06 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
wrote:
I looked into PNaCl a bit, but when it comes to Google I always
get the feeling that they feel it is sufficient to make native
programming possible rather than pleasant. Same for Android
NDK, and some might say Go (perhaps unfair).
In that respect WebAssembly is a good thing, if it takes off,
the browser-competition means that they will need to focus on
tooling/in-browser-debugging.
I haven't been able to figure out if it will support a GC?
PNaCl is not meant to be used as such. You do you code in some
other language and compile it to PNaCl.
Mozilla made it a Google thing. They basically dropped the
project int he middle of the road to push their alternative
standard, asm.js . This created the mess we see here in the first
place.
They fucked up and now don't want to admit it, so now we need 3
"standards" instead of one.
