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Note

Thanks to the Rebuild effort for both the NaCl loader and the Saigo NaCl compiler, and the fact the Saigo compiler has been maintained by Google up to 2025, bringing Clang 21 and C++23, the NaCl technology may be relevant for another decade and this allows the Unvanquished team to focus resources on other things.

But Native Client will die one day, and we are slowly preparing the future, and WebAssembly is the best candidate for a Native Client successor.

It's possible that the actual NaCl death will not come from Google but from Apple when they will deprecate the Rosetta 2 translation layer. If that prevents to run the amd64 loader on Apple Silicon, then Native Client will be dead for macOS and would not be a viable multi-platform sandboxing solution anymore.