Re: Lua in browser: some good news

["Stuart P. Bentley" <stuart@...>]

On Wed, 12 May 2010 10:42:15 -0700, HyperHacker <hyperhacker@gmail.com>  
wrote:

> On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 11:38, Fabien <fleutot+lua@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Google progresses with NaCl, its system to safely run native code in the
> > browser. Not only can it run the Lua interpreter, but they already did  
> > the
> > porting:
> > http://blog.chromium.org/2010/05/sneak-peek-at-native-client-sdk.html
> >
> > Now I don't know whether their code checker will accept something as
> > black-magic-loaded as LuaJIT, and it wouldn't run on ARM-based
> > phones/tablets anyway, but I'd be interested to see progresses on this
> > front...
> > -- Fabien.
>
> Seriously? Lua as a client-side web scripting language? I never
> thought I'd see the day, but I always hoped... :D

As have I.

Now, if somebody can do this for Firefox, we may have a serious contender  
here. ("Use the same tech for your client and server" would be a pretty  
sweet sales point.)