[axelf]

It seems like every time someone tries to replace javascript with a better solution someone has to bring up vendor lock-in. Are we supposed to just live with javascript for eternity? When javascript was introduced it only worked on netscape browsers than other browsers adopted it later. It wasn't made a spec until later.

[NinjaWarrior]

Indeed. Every trial to replace "standards" is called "evil". From this perspective, the web platform is far from open. The result is we all are in a local optimum trap. I already gave up expecting cool future and decided to stick to the native development for a while (for a decade or more).

BTW, as a game developer, it would be nice if this rendering latency issue will be fixed soon.

- http://phoboslab.org/log/2012/06/measuring-input-lag-in-brow...

- https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=168459

I think this response time issue is a real show-stopper than JavaScript performance.

[peterhunt]

This along with the fact that you can't avoid GC when handling browser events makes it really hard to hit a consistent framerate for sure.

[chc]

Well, asm.js gets around this by piggybacking on JavaScript's syntax. So that's one approach.

Adoption really is a big issue, and I think it kind of misses the point to handwave it by saying, "Oh, adoption is such a big issue that it's insurmountable, so let's ignore it." Google hasn't really done a lot to work with anyone else on PNaCl, or even really to address any issues anyone's brought up with PNaCl. They're just sort of creating an island so far. If PNaCl is going to be a thing, they're going to need to get past that.

[pjmlp]

Because it is never done in collaboration between browser vendors.