On: Bringing Asm.js to Chakra and Microsoft Edge

[flohofwoe]

I would really love to see Native Client on Android as alternative to the dreaded Android NDK, and I really don't understand why this hasn't already happened, it's so incredibly obvious. Just give us the ability to deploy and run a PNaCl executable directly as normal Android application, and without all the Java and JNI shenanigans. The Pepper API has a lot more to offer than what's exposed through the NDK headers, and the SDK itself is much easier to get up and running then the NDK.

[pjmlp → flohofwoe]

I would just be happy if they offered the same as iOS and WP, access to OS APIs to all languages.

However I bet the Android team only added the NDK forced by upper management, given how little care they give to it.

[higherpurpose → flohofwoe]

Yeah, I'd like to see that, too. It might make supporting Go on Android easier, too. Even Rust could probably be used then for Android apps.

[steveklabnik → higherpurpose]

We already test every PR against Android with Rust, but you can't use any of the native toolkit stuff afaik, it's the same as if you used C.