Google I/O 2011: Beyond JavaScript: Programming the Web with Native Client

David Springer

Learn how to supercharge your web apps with native C/C++ code that runs directly in the browser, without the hassle of a plug-in. Join us as we build a simple game that has a simulation engine built in C/C++ and a front-end built in Javascript. You'll learn how to serve the native code and how to connect the C/C++ code to Javascript.

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[lennyhome]

I really hope this is the beginning of the end for HTML, javascript, CSS, java, Flash and all the of the stupidity last 15 years.

[GathGealaich]

No, he's right. In the broader landscape of programming languages, the conceptual distance between Java and C# is negligible (just compare them to Forth, Haskell or APL and tell me how they are *not* the same.)

[GathGealaich]

"Oo C++ is easy to learn and better then JS could ever be."

No, it isn't. it's a horrible hack on top of C-like semantics, rather than a clean design, with nasty stuff waiting the most unexpected places to bite you in the ass.

"I think nearly all JS Engines are written in C++"

That's not an argument. That's like saying that "all people ride on horses" if you live in the Middle Age. That doesn't mean the horse won't be replaced by a car one day. That means that many people don't know better.

[tiocsti]

It's not a strict superset. There are valid c programs which are not valid c++. void* handling is one well-known example.

[tiocsti]

It's not a strict superset. There are valid c programs which are not valid c++. void* handling is one well-known example.

[Marty Glaubitz]

since C++ is a superset of C++, every C++ compiler compiles C also

[razor5cl]

Can code written in C work in a C++ compiler?

[Dávid Horváth]

Wikipedia: "The comparison focuses on areas where the languages differ. In fact the two languages and their platforms are more alike than they are different"

[JTr3icio]

Bullet -> Head? Oo C++ is easy to learn and better then JS could ever be. (I think nearly all JS Engines are written in C++ (ok, there are some written in Java)). The fact that you said "it do almost every thing any one could ever dream with!" means you don't know any of the limitations of js and you don't know anything about C++