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Re:Coding Horror: All Programming is Web Programming by LegionSB on Friday August 14, 2009 @12:26PM (#763307)
>> "then we can abandon the doomed effort to somehow cobble together huge, powerful apps like Maya and Photoshop out of a mess of JavaScript and XML."

Or, you know, we could develop better tools for the web.

I'm amazed that this discussion always takes the stance that we're stuck with what we're using for web development now, as if nobody could possibly develop better languages and tools for web use.

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Re:Coding Horror: All Programming is Web Programming by wwalker3 on Friday August 14, 2009 @02:27PM (#763548)
That's exactly my point -- NaCl would make languages and tools available to web app developers which have already proven their worth in developing complex, graphically intense application interfaces on the desktop.
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