By Doug Schaefer
I need to watch out or people will start calling me a Google fan boy or something (well, too late). It seems everything they come up with lately grabs my attention. And I guess it makes sense, because they seem to be heading in a different direction than a lot of people, and more in a direction that appeals to me. First Android (open mobile handset), then Google Chrome (Webkit-based browser), then the V8 C++ friendly JavaScript VM, and now, Native Client.
If you haven't heard of it, it appears to be a Google research project into running secured native x86 code in a browser. Yes, we have tried that before with ActiveX and it was a security disaster. But the underlying need for high performance interactive web pages is pretty intriguing. If you could write browser applets in C++, why wouldn't you? I suppose...
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