Google Goes Native
December 29, 2011
As if the company was not trying hard enough to integrate themselves into every aspect of internet and software, Google is now being compared to the sun?
I was a bit baffled when I ran across the headline of a recent article on Infoworld, titled “Google As the New Sun: Case in Point, Native Client.” Apparently, with the fall of Sun Microsystems, the company responsible for Java and Network File System, Google has taken the lead in the software industry. Examples of this are listed in the article: Google Web Toolkit, Dart Programming, and Native Client, which runs inside of the Chrome browser and is specifically discussed further in the Infoworld article. We learn:
Google wants Native Client to be equal to JavaScript while enabling developers to instead use languages like C, C++, and, thanks to the Mono runtime, C# and other .Net languages to build with Native Client. But Native Client is limited to the Chrome browser and is geared to desktop for the foreseeable future. Google is eager to get Native Client supported on other browsers, Chen says: “It’s open source, and [other browser vendors] can use it anytime they want to.’
However, we have our doubts. With a technology that is being compared to the likes of Sun Microsystems, we should expect more. Native Client has a limited reach and a questionable level of security. Support for Native Client on mobile platforms is not even being discussed at this time. The application does not have much support in the industry – Apple and Microsoft have nothing to say on the topic and Mozilla has given a negative response. Our stance? Google has much work to do before we will let the technology be “the sun.”
Andrea Hayden, December 29, 2011
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