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> Sounds more like Java to me. Let's replace a few words in the article:

Winner, winner, chicken dinner.

After seeing all the web developers of the 90s dump on Java applets all the time, it's fascinating to see the same functionality being reimplemented piecemeal in Javascript.

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We dumped on Java applets because they ran isolated in rectangles on the window and took ages to start and then proceeded to slow our machines to a crawl, and most of what it was used for was mundane stuff that could be done without Java, or that we didn't want.

The ultimate indictment of just how bad a fit java applets was is exactly that people shunned it despite the horrible alternatives.

PNaCl isn't Javascript.

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