Ask HN: Your predictions for 2012?

Re:Ask HN: Your predictions for 2012? by willvarfar on Tuesday December 27, 2011 @06:24AM (#3395449)

Native Client (NaCL) will power the next wave of social games.

Adobe Creative Suite will support an NaCL target and Flash will be superceded whilst Adobe get a new boost of adoption on the tools front

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Re:Ask HN: Your predictions for 2012? by charliesome on Tuesday December 27, 2011 @06:55AM (#3395504)

I hope NaCl doesn't gain any traction. It really is a step backwards.

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Re:Ask HN: Your predictions for 2012? by chriseidhof on Tuesday December 27, 2011 @08:28AM (#3395682)

I hope so, this would be a huge leap forward for the web. For low-level performance, Javascript doesn't quite cut it. Although it will of course become faster and faster, I don't think you can approach a low-level language.

NaCl will also enable other languages for client-side programming.

However... I doubt that Apple will include it in iOS, which might be a big hurdle for adoption...

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