I mean, with empscripten, Firefox OS, Firefox browser, and now asm.js... they're about to force everyone onto their own terms.
This is clearly a big move and the beginning of a major victory for Mozilla and all users and developers.
Serving native apps, in the browser, with JS. And everyone is going to have no choice but to follow them, because all other browsers will fallback to their regular JS interpretter/JIT if they don't optimize on asm.js.
We're talking games and applications that will run an order of magnitude faster on Firefox than in other platforms out of the gate. But they'll still run everywhere, just very slowly.
I mean, with empscripten, Firefox OS, Firefox browser, and now asm.js... they're about to force everyone onto their own terms.
This is clearly a big move and the beginning of a major victory for Mozilla and all users and developers.
Serving native apps, in the browser, with JS. And everyone is going to have no choice but to follow them, because all other browsers will fallback to their regular JS interpretter/JIT if they don't optimize on asm.js.
We're talking games and applications that will run an order of magnitude faster on Firefox than in other platforms out of the gate. But they'll still run everywhere, just very slowly.