On Jun 9, 2011, at 12:06 PM, BGB wrote:

> On 6/9/2011 11:10 AM, Josh Gargus wrote:
>> That all sounds very cool.
>> 
>> However, I don't think that it's feasible to try to ship something like this 
>> as standard in all browsers, if only for political reasons.  It would be 
>> impossible to get Mozilla, Google, Apple, and Microsoft to agree on it.
>> 
>> That's what's cool about NaCl.  It's minimal enough to be a feasible 
>> candidate for universal adoption.  If it's adopted, then an ecosystem 
>> springs up with people inventing recursive exokernels to run in the browser.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Josh
>> 
> 
> I don't understand though why one needs "recursive exokernels" though...

You're taking me too literally.  My point is that the first goal is to get 
widespread adoption of something like NaCl that is good enough to host a POSIX 
environment, a recursive exokernel, or whatever.  Once that first goal is 
achieved, well,  "let a hundred flowers bloom".  

Cheers,
Josh



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