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Chrome Is the New C Runtime
New submitter uncloud writes "Cross-platform app development is more important than ever. But what about when you need the features and performance of native code, across platforms? And you're a startup with a small team and impossible deadlines?" His answer? Take advantage of cross-platform Chrome. From the article: "Out of necessity, the Chrome team has created cross-platform abstractions for many low-level platform features. We use this source as the core API on which we build our business logic, and it's made the bulk of our app cross-platform with little effort. Most importantly -- Chrome code has been battle-tested like almost nothing else, with an installed base in the hundreds of millions. That makes all the difference when you want to spend your days working on your company's business logic instead of debugging platform issues."
Obviously you should make your product cross-platform by supporting both NSPR and Chrome ;-)
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
That's true: Sooner or later I get hungry, so I'll go somewhere to eat and ask the server to give me some food.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
Probably. Emacs runs lisp, for which a large variety of javascript implementations exist. x86 simulators for javascript do also exist. On these, some kind of operating system can be booted (be it windows or linux or whatever), on which the related version of chrome should be able to run.
They should have chosen Java instead of C++ in the first place.
the real trick is to start chrome browser, start Fabrice Bellard's javascript x86 virtual machine in Chrome, start Chrome OS on the VM, start Chrome on Chrome OS, then once you've got an infinite software defined hardware loop running, just unplug the physical hardware and put it away
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