Since much of this already exists in Chromium, does that mean that Google is pushing for JavaScript / Progressive Web Apps? You could have lighter installs of application or just links to web apps run. It almost sounds like they're going the Firefox OS route.
Since much of this already exists in Chromium, does that mean that Google is pushing for JavaScript / Progressive Web Apps? You could have lighter installs of application or just links to web apps run. It almost sounds like they're going the Firefox OS route.
Google has been threatened with serious problems by Oracle with Java. Google was effectively forced to build an alternative with zero Oracle input in it so that, if they had lost the suits, they had a place to go with their products. Now that it looks like Oracle is losing, there's a chance that Java based stuff will survive long term, however the groups that sprung up with alternatives will not be killed for a long time. They now have a chance to kill Java in Google or at least take its crown as the lea
Dropping Java sounds wonderful, but replacing it with web apps is about the only imaginable thing that would be worse. If only Google would embrace golang and build a proper GUI on top of it. The Go language/runtime is portable, fast, safe, and integrates well with legacy code. The development environment is also infinitely more pleasant.
The idea of a portable bytecode isn't bad, but the JVM is a terrible implementation and doesn't map well to actual hardware. The Mill Architecture provides a much bette
I think they're going more for a language/framework agnostic route. ChromeOS was all about web technologies, but I think a sizable impetus around NaCl was that web technologies were always going to be limited and inefficient.
I don't think NaCl is their long term bet, I just seriously doubt they'll try to get people to write everything in JavaScript. The major issue is that web browsers seem to double in memory requirements every two or three years, and are slower today on modern hardware than they were o
Always try to do things in chronological order; it's less confusing that way.
Is Google slowly dropping Java? (Score:2)
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Since much of this already exists in Chromium, does that mean that Google is pushing for JavaScript / Progressive Web Apps? You could have lighter installs of application or just links to web apps run. It almost sounds like they're going the Firefox OS route.
Google has been threatened with serious problems by Oracle with Java. Google was effectively forced to build an alternative with zero Oracle input in it so that, if they had lost the suits, they had a place to go with their products. Now that it looks like Oracle is losing, there's a chance that Java based stuff will survive long term, however the groups that sprung up with alternatives will not be killed for a long time. They now have a chance to kill Java in Google or at least take its crown as the lea
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Dropping Java sounds wonderful, but replacing it with web apps is about the only imaginable thing that would be worse. If only Google would embrace golang and build a proper GUI on top of it. The Go language/runtime is portable, fast, safe, and integrates well with legacy code. The development environment is also infinitely more pleasant.
The idea of a portable bytecode isn't bad, but the JVM is a terrible implementation and doesn't map well to actual hardware. The Mill Architecture provides a much bette
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I think they're going more for a language/framework agnostic route. ChromeOS was all about web technologies, but I think a sizable impetus around NaCl was that web technologies were always going to be limited and inefficient.
I don't think NaCl is their long term bet, I just seriously doubt they'll try to get people to write everything in JavaScript. The major issue is that web browsers seem to double in memory requirements every two or three years, and are slower today on modern hardware than they were o