Google's Chrome team developing app launcher for Mac
Because the Chrome OS platform runs Web apps instead of traditional programs, the app launcher is a vital part of the experience. Instead of having to enter Chrome to execute app functions, the launcher breaks out the Web-based titles into a separate window. "
This may seem like an innocuous announcement, but in combination with Google Native Client, there is a bright future here. Call me a naysayer, but I don't think the future is written in Javascript. Unless of course you want to write a lot more code than you need to. Maybe typescript tho'