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by 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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> 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.