Ruby in the browser with NativeClient (NaCl)

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Shows how Google Chrome's Native Client executes compiled native code in a sandboxed browser runtime: you compile C/C++ (or Ruby ports) with a special toolchain, ship architecture-specific binaries plus an nmf manifest, and the browser verifies and runs them with the Pepper API under the same security boundaries as JavaScript. Demos include compile Ruby to NaCl and a fully playable Quake running in browser, plus examples of App Engine using NaCl and a fallback path using PNaCl LLVM bitcode → Emscripten to JS; limitations: no arbitrary FS or raw sockets, toolchain and API versions matter.

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1. 0:00Language diversity
2. 1:45Browser limitations
3. 3:24JavaScript experience
4. 5:09Ruby experiments
5. 6:52Ruby in the browser
6. 8:28Server-side Ruby
7. 9:31Microsoft Gestalt
8. 12:46Plugin history
9. 16:52Chrome architecture
10. 19:03Native client
11. 25:17Code capabilities
12. 28:38Ruby with NaCl
13. 31:41Running Quake
14. 34:44NaCl use cases
15. 39:42Portable NaCl
16. 41:21Emscripten
17. 46:29Future of web innovation
18. 58:00Q&A

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