Where will the development of asm.js / Native Client lead?

Question

Google

Just yesterday I watched a video from a Google conference: now Google is very interested in integrating things like asm.js / native client into browsers, even though the technologies are already working, but so far only in a test state. It was also discussed that node.js has already fully learned to translate straight into native code, which accelerated the speed of V8 to the speed of pure C / C ++. That is, if everything goes on correctly, then the code on the node can be written as fast as possible, but the usual plain javascript in the browser will produce such a performance that gta5 can be ported without problems. The point is only in the time before the launch of technology to the masses.
How do you think these innovations could affect the world of browser/node.js development?

Answer 1

pieces like asm.js/native client in browsers

Well, in five years they will make a curved cut-down analogue of flash
First, let productivity be at least brought to the chakra
Nobody needs gta5 in the browser

Answer 2

hello holy war!
What do you think? Mozilla for asm.js, Google - native client, we are waiting for Microsoft with their crutch.
Do they believe js will reach the speed of c/c++. And if it does, then chrome, or ff, will eat many times more operatives. Well, or JavaScript will be renamed to c ++.

Answer 3

Where it will lead - I know, and therefore I am already writing on it.
Is it difficult? - a very high entrance threshold and you need to know a lot before starting work.
Is it worth it? - an unequivocal YES.
Profit? - any topic, target platform, big money (because this is a big advantage on the market today) and...
THE MOST IMPORTANT - a very fast result: a ready-made working solution.
What can I say: YES, the future belongs to JS and, most likely, it will be "lowered" to the level of CPU instructions. Those. now there is a "test of the pen" and further, having already reached a complete understanding of the necessary architecture, the introduction into the "hardware" will immediately begin.
Webkit(node.js included)/PhoneGap+ASM.js => de facto single cross-platform development environment for the fastest development for entertainment content, multimedia and gaming Web applications with a full range of thin client capabilities today.

Answer 4

I believe that development is moving towards turning the browser into a general-purpose (albeit stripped-down) target platform, which should be facilitated by WebAssembly as a vendor-independent low-level standard. Only such a standard has a chance to remove the burden of the target language for building a web client (that is, the language in which everything is either developed in or compiled into it from other languages) from the shoulders of JavaScript and put an end to this idiocy. I think JS should sooner or later become a development language only, and stop being "an assembler for a web browser" as well.

Answer 5

Google can drop the native client at any time.
In addition, until such a technology is standardized and appears in all browsers on most platforms, its use is pointless: it is more convenient to make standalone applications.

Answer 6

Google can drop the native client at any time.

seems to have already been merged with ChromeOS
nothing has changed radically in 5 years, there are even more chances that these are dead-end technologies. These are interesting directions, but for a product developer they won’t change their lives here and now, you won’t sit down to port gta alone to partial platforms ?!

Answer 7

I don't think that the future belongs to JS, most likely it will be replaced by some new language in which it will be easy to write WASM applications. And JS itself will smoothly leave the market.

Answer 8

it would be nice if it could be seen how long or how long people have been in the IT field .... the
slogan - let's upgrade JS to level C .... fucked up, comrades ... there are no words .....
or maybe C adapt to JS or, so to speak, web needs?
looking at the hierarchy of the development trends of the modern world of development, just in shock, they start to reinvent the wheel n times ....
flash sawed, sawed .... and? ))) for so many years, and things are still there .... technologies are fucked up, but what the hell is the point ..... judging radically, then the efficiency of the modern IT world is finally no ..... one continuous show for idiots .. ..everything revolves around how else to entertain these boobies ..... I remembered the movie IDIOCRACY .....
and most importantly, for something to work well, it needs to be done well ....
these are not bad roads, but crappy cars, everything is simple. a good car drives well on any road, and even if on a "gravity cushion", the essence is in the approach.