Google Chrome Beta Now Supports C/C++

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21 points·LiveTheDream··6 comments

A four day old story that is a re-wording of the Google blog post but with errors added in.

How the hell does this get voted up?

I searched before posting[1] and didn't see anything relevant, so I posted the story.

In retrospect I should have posted the original link from the chrome blog. I see someone has already dug the original out and posted it[2].

Anyway, the four day old story never made it onto HN to begin with, so that's not a valid complaint.

[1] http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=chrome+c%2B... [2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2881946

In case anyone's interested, here's the original story:

http://chrome.blogspot.com/2011/08/building-better-web-apps-...

A big challenge will be cross-browser support and last time I checked (March), Mozilla said that they're 'not excited by it'. Source: http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1014716/Emerging-Technologies-R... [~46min]

Yuck. ActiveX, just sandboxed and without COM weirdness. The very imagination that someday we'll see «this website requires x86-64» makes me shiver.

The article is weird, too. NaCl does not run C (or C++ or whatever) code, it runs native code. C was mentioned as just an example ("... like C or C++ ...").

Running C code in the browser... what could possibly go wrong?

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