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by xyzzy_plugh 3310 days ago
Your comment scared me, but TFA doesn't say that:

> We will remove support for PNaCl in the first quarter of 2018 everywhere except inside Chrome Apps and Extensions.

Where do you see that chrome apps are being discontinued? Otherwise this is FUD.
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TimothyFitz 3310 days ago
EOL for Chrome Apps outside of Chrome OS was announced in August 2016 https://blog.chromium.org/2016/08/from-chrome-apps-to-web.ht...
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datguacdoh 3310 days ago
But OP is specifically calling out how this hurts Chrome OS, but it doesn't seem to affect that platform, from what I can tell.
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itp 3310 days ago
One way it affects it is to reduce the overall market for Chrome apps, reducing the incentive to make an app in the first place.
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ehsankia 3310 days ago
Exactly. I doubt most of the ChromeApps that exist today were made for ChromeOS. They were made because it was an easy and straight forward way of making a webapp on the desktop. Now, as OP mentions, everyone is moving to Electron and NWJS, neither of which works directly on ChromeOS.

The only upside I can see is that CrOS is soon going to support running Android Apps which may save it, but even then... Maybe they'll figure out a way to run Electron/NWJS apps on ChromeOS?

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zurn 3310 days ago
This might also motivate better support for running ChromeOS apps under standard Linux.
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foota 3310 days ago
Maybe Google is looking to run Android apps in chrome?
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dmix 3310 days ago
The massive ChromeOS market as compared to the Chrome extension app store?
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rhizome 3310 days ago
OP isn't calling out how it hurts CrOS, they're describing how it's the place that Chrome Apps are still available, and thus could have that functionality copied out of CrOS and rejiggered to (continue to) work in Linux.
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DonHopkins 3310 days ago
Better EOL than EOLAS.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eolas

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angry_octet 3310 days ago
Deprecating it in the browser will kill any developer ecosystem. No one will write Chrome Apps anymore.
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clhodapp 3310 days ago
It may take a bit longer before it is disabled everywhere, but I feel like the writing is pretty much on the wall for NaCl at this point; If you develop or depend on apps that leverage it (in any context), this should probably be a warning sign to start thinking about how to sever that dependency (even if it's not urgent).
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