Traditional C "Hello World" working in NaCl

As a side note, why is it that I have to sign in to Google in order to be able to see this? Is registration /really/ necessary for Google Groups?

Can someone please explain to me why running native code coming from a web site is a good idea?<p>Because I see this as "Google's ActiveX"

I'm a fan of fast native code, but I worry that this promotes sneaky code in the background once it gets widely adopted.<p>With javascript we basically have open-source web apps. I often skim through js source to learn new tricks - and obfuscation doesn't really stop me (apart from google's java-translated js) . With compiled NaCl I probably wouldn't be able to find out a lot.<p>I'm not talking about "stealing user data" when I say sneaky code. No, with compiled native code a whole new game is started: computational-intensive code. It wouldn't be that difficult to include code that gets a job to work on for a few minutes: breaking captchas, brute-forcing passwords, anything that shift computational effort from a server to a client.

I wonder when we will see the first obfuscated C for NaCI code contest.

I wonder how it handles a bogus printf format string.