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No, FTFA: “We will remove support for PNaCl in the first quarter of 2018 everywhere except inside Chrome Apps and Extensions.”

Chrome Apps (and extensions) using PNaCl will continue to work.

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Yes, because non-portable NaCl has higher usage inside Chrome Apps and Extensions, but I don't for a minute believe that Google is going to continue investing eng resources in maintaining (non-portable) NaCl now that pNaCl is dead, so I'd expect that to get deprecated sometime in 2019 or 2020.

Disclaimer: My opinion, not that of my employer.

> Yes, because non-portable NaCl has higher usage inside Chrome Apps and Extensions, but I don't for a minute believe that Google is going to continue investing eng resources in maintaining (non-portable) NaCl now that pNaCl is dead, so I'd expect that to get deprecated sometime in 2019 or 2020.

Sure, it is deprecated and will be deactivated eventually (but maybe not soon; consider WebSQL). Google's got every incentive to make sure that WebAssembly (plus the APIs exposed in ChromeOS) provides a complete replacement for PNaCl and apps have had time to transition before doing that.

WebSQL is so sad.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42288596/websql-has-incr...

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