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The whole point of NaCl is to stop bundling runtimes with the browser. You can develop in whatever language you like as long as it can compile to NaCl byte-code.

That said there could be a Chrome app that is a Ruby interpreter running on NaCl.

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The whole point of NaCl is to stop bundling runtimes with the browser

Ironically enough that's exactly what NaCl itself is.

I think that's stretching the definition; NaCl is part of the runtime environment, but only as a sandbox which programs won't notice unless they go off the rails. Unless you meant Pepper, which does provide enough platform support for a port of the flash plugin. But Pepper is an API, and the functionality it gives access to would be part of Chrome anyway.

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