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The Next Browser Scripting Language Is — C?

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the a-home-for-all-of-that-old-code dept.

mad.frog writes to tell us that in a recent talk by Adobe's Scott Petersen he demonstrated a new toolchain that he has been working on (and soon to be open-sourced) that allows C code to be run by the Tamarin virtual machine. "The toolchain includes lots of other details, such as a custom POSIX system call API and a C multimedia library that provides access to Flash. And there's some things that Petersen had to add to Tamarin, such as a native byte array that maps directly to RAM, thereby allowing the VM's "emulation" of memory to have only a minor overhead over the real thing. The end result is the ability to run a wide variety of existing C code in Flash at acceptable speeds. Petersen demonstrated a version of Quake running in a Flash app, as well as a C-based Nintendo emulator running Zelda; both were eminently playable, and included sound effects and music."

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  1. And once we have C... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    We can write PHP! And then browser security will be top notch.

  2. what? by thermian · · Score: 5, Funny

    You mean my preferred language has just become cool?

    Ok, this is either great news or the world is about to end.

    I think I'll go stand in a doorway for an hour or two, just to be on the safe side.

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    1. Re:what? by eviloverlordx · · Score: 5, Funny

      I heard that COBOL is next on the TODO list.

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  3. Re:Right... by Chris+Mattern · · Score: 5, Funny

    The circle is now complete. When C left Unix it was but the back-end. Now, it is the API.

  4. Re:Where did they get the Zelda on PC? by Rob+T+Firefly · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's a secret to everyone.

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  5. Re:Browser-based OS by Whatanut · · Score: 5, Funny

    If you run a browser based OS... and install a browser in it. And then use that to run a browser based OS, why... we could have infinite amounts of computing power! Or space time will tear itself apart. Either way, I'm making popcorn.

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  6. Re:Sounds fantastic by dedazo · · Score: 5, Funny

    Those who don't remember ActiveX are doomed to reinvent it. Poorly.

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  7. Re:Right... by Achoi77 · · Score: 5, Funny

    only an API of evil, Darth!

  8. Re:Browser-based OS by sconeu · · Score: 5, Funny

    So it's browsers all the way down?

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