After adding module support for several modern processor architectures in March, Google's Native Client (NaCl) project has moved past the research version and released a developer preview SDK that should allow you to start writing NaCl apps in minutes. Native Client is a plugin framework for the browser that is carefully sandboxed, and runs directly on the operating system while leveraging modern hardware architectures. It has modules for running native x86 and ARM processor code in the browser with a native execution sandbox that isolates the application from the browser and the host's regular processes (Unlike Netscape plugins or ActiveX). The research version of Native Client was made available about one year ago. It consisted of a source tree snapshot that developers could download and play with, but the download was pretty bulky. The Native Client SDK is much more lightweight, giving you access to powerful APIs and allowing you to write C/C++ that works seamlessly in Chromium. It includes only the essential components for getting an app up and running. These components include a modified GCC compiler to generate x86-32 or x86-64 binaries from C/C++, ports of open source projects such as zlib, Lua, and libjpeg, and some samples for developing with the NPAPI Pepper Extensions. Read more: DZone
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