Arc

This is really cool. It's completely backwards from my personal usage of the Internet; I get away with browsing online using a Penryn-era Pentium, a ARM-based Chromebook, and/or…

I think this is awesome! I had the thought the other day that perhaps using a VM or the lightweight container technologies (like Jails or Docker) that we should be able to do…

cool, looks like the natural extension of client-side programming. why should we be limited to running things in the browser while our local machines remain underutilized? just…

Security wise, this seems like an awful idea: Unless the host is firewalled from the guest, if Arc-style VMs become popular, than you'll have malicious websites starting VMs to…

This is a terrible idea. The author needs to stop what they're doing right now, from a security context this is really quite dangerous. Arc uses a desktop virtualisation tool to…

(P)NaCl already solves this problem, without such hacks as transparently spinning up a virtual machine. I don't trust Virtualbox to be especially resilient to attacks from…

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it's a 171.5MB app to convert youtube videos to mp3s I didn't click ok Maybe 40MBs is ok… :D

You might want to change the name from Arc to something else. Arc is the name of a lisp dialect written by Paul Graham, and is the language Hacker News is written in.…

I like the idea here, but really wish you'd rename it to something which didn't collide with pg's Arc (which runs Hacker News). There is a lot of awesome stuff you can do with…

This project is going to die unsuccessful. The sooner you stop working on it, the less you will lose unless you really enjoy building this for no other reason than doing it and…

(P)NaCl already solves this problem, without such hacks as transparently spinning up a virtual machine. I don't trust Virtualbox to be especially resilient to attacks from…

> I want to build apps in Python and C and ship them in the browser. I can't. Did you try the existing solutions for running those languages in the browser? (pyjamas, emscripten,…

How does one try out this beta? Is this going to be open source?

This is really cool. Thanks for releasing it to the world! Of course it is as secure as the virtualbox Sanbox is, but some variation of this statement would also be true for…

From an end-user POV, what will using an Arc app entail? Will it be like Flash Player and Java; ie, you download and install Arc once, and then all Arc apps will just work and be…

And what happens to the VM when the user closes their arc app? It seems like you could build really powerful tools that leverage saving the state of the VM between sessions.…

I was hoping it was a finished version of http://bellard.org/jslinux/

Interesting, but dependencies are a long-term killer. You should check this project: ``` http://bellard.org/jslinux/ ``` It creates a VM in javascript and can boot Linux.

(P)NaCl already solves this problem, without such hacks as transparently spinning up a virtual machine. I don't trust Virtualbox to be especially resilient to attacks from…

On Chrome platforms, this could make use of Native Client to run the VM directly in the browser, rather than requiring the installation of an un-sandboxed browser plugin.

Hasn't this already been done with Java applets? Would the difference here be that instead of running Java, you could run almost any language?

Neat concept, but I don't see a VirtualBox-based implementation ever becoming mainstream... not that it needs to be mainstream to be useful. It seems like full blown x86 PC…

I think it's a nice idea, but you should consider adding support for other backend providers such as Docker.