What I suspect Google is up to with Native Client

Because a platform is near-native performance, is cross platform and may run in a virtual machine, they are becoming Microsoft and locking people in? WHAT? (Beyond the absurdity of leaping to that conclusion, it's an open spec and the main implementation is open source. I understand that alternative implementations are needed for "open spec" to have significant meaning, but still).

That and the last set of bullet points are all true. Just like Google... except without the near native performance of NaCl. Which is why it was created. To be just like the rest of the HTML/JS stack. They're trying to get to actual "Web 2.0" (bleck), where Dart and NaCl are viable additions to the traditional stack. I see no reason why this is nefarious.

RE this whole conspiracy (not mocking it by calling it that...) and the Android connection especially... that's what I've been assuming and hoping for from day one. Portable LLVM bytecode is another step in that direction as well. I'm excited.