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Do note that Mozilla is not a hive-mind, and people disagree with Brendan on a regular basis. I haven't heard of anyone within Mozilla who was actually interested in NaCL/PNaCL/dart.


As a said to another commenter, this is selective bias.

Do you think a systems/application developer, who believes in those ideas, would choose to work at, or be a part of, Mozilla, given Eich's clear and verbose positions that stand entirely apart from decades of success shipping consumer applications for desktop and now mobile devices?

As someone who writes consumer applications, I want a common application platform, but I'm not going to sacrifice my tooling, work quality, or user experience to contribute to a fundamentally flawed approach, just because it's "open".


You're reaching, no one outside of Google likes NaCl or Dart (and even many in Google don't care for it). It's not just Mozilla that's against it.

NaCl and Dart were both created in a Dart room without anyone else's input.


You're a web developer, yes? In my circles NaCL is looked at with interest because there's no way possibly for us to produce apps to the level of quality we do elsewhere -- and without a huge amount of pain -- while using the web's organically grown technology stack.

Google at least understands the flaws. Web developers seem to have their head in the sand while mobile may very well eat their lunch.




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