[cap-talk] browsers as operating system

[Jonathan S. Shapiro]

On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 11:29 +0200, Rob Meijer wrote:
> On Thu, September 11, 2008 10:25, David-Sarah Hopwood wrote:
> > Why on earth would we want to make them more complicated by adding
> > E, C#, C++, and C, before fixing the existing problems? Especially
> > given that C++ and C are not even memory-safe?

C, C++: we don't want to.

The rest: we don't want to at this level of abstraction, but introducing
a common, safe JIT runtime to which all of these can compile might make
quite a lot of sense. The safe execution issues are straightforward.

The piece in all this that people have no answer to is download delays.


shap