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Would it be possible to write a native client application in Python or Go that could then run in the browser?
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Go used to compile to NaCl, but NaCl's been such a moving target that the support was removed from Go. It'll probably be resurrected at some point if/when NaCl settles down.
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It is architecturally possible, but the current SDK only has C/C++ toolchains as far as I can tell. They have the Python REPL running as a browser-based client (complete with standard library and sqlite http://lackingrhoticity.blogspot.com/2009/06/python-standard-library-in-native.html ).
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