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by sangnoir 3301 days ago
> Why not try to help create a standard instead?

They do that as well, it's not one or the other. Google had employees working on WebAssembly (along with Mozilla, Apple and Microsoft). Standards take time to be developed and finalized.
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roca 3301 days ago
Google had a lot of people working on NaCl and PNaCl for a long time before they started working on WebAssembly.
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sangnoir 3301 days ago
> Google had a lot of people working on NaCl and PNaCl for a long time before they started working on WebAssembly

That's probably because NaCl(2011) and PNaCl predate WebAssembly (announced 2015). Google was optimizing Chrome for asm.js as far back as Chrome 28 (July 2013) - less than 5 months after asm.js was announced.

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