[ANN] mergExt: BLE, Google spreadsheets, Map directions, iOS 9 & special price

Monte Goulding monte at sweattechnologies.com
Mon Oct 12 22:51:57 EDT 2015


> On 13 Oct 2015, at 1:41 pm, Roger Eller <roger.e.eller at sealedair.com> wrote:
> 
> There is a mention of running C++ in a sandboxed environment here.
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Native_Client <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Native_Client>
> 
> "An alternative of sorts to NaCl is asm.js, which also allows C and C++
> applications to be compiled to run in the browser (at more than half the
> native speed), and also supports ahead-of-time compilation, but is a subset
> of JavaScript and hence backwards-compatible with browsers that do not
> support it directly."
> 
> So, perhaps inside a browser object?

^ Is what the HTML 5 version of LC is. LC compiled as javascript. It won’t help us here. My gut feeling is just wait for extensions. The recent work done on the browser widget indicates we will be able to do some really interesting things with native layers soon.




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