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0 pointsfooker7y ago0 comments

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.

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bzbarsky7y 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).

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