[bzbarsky]

> but I refuse to touch Javascript with a ten-foot pole.

Why? Honest question here: what are the problems that are making you unwilling to even try it? Is performance the main problem?

> just think of it as opening up the "standard native code"

As long as the browser is running on a small set of target hardware architectures. And everyone else gets locked out, right?

If PNaCl ever happens, that might change, but at the moment that's how NaCl works: you tie your "web page" to a particular set of hardware architectures when you use it.