On the mailing list, it's planned as a local server + browser http://groups.google.com/group/light-table/browse_thread/thr...
I was thinking a webapp version would be easy to monetize (monthly), but it only makes sense when you have to store data - which I now realize could be the code itself. :) A front-end for developing hosted projects.
It could be sold to amazon AWS, heroku, google apps, IBM/Oracle etc; and perhaps to github, bitbucket, dropbox when they start hosting apps - or start a new dev cloud. (of course, still provide the local server version).
Maybe problems with network latency + javascript performance... but might work for some divisions of labour, on some platforms (e.g. iPad). Network latency is worth it, if the result is faster than a local server could do... and if roundtrip + server was 100-200ms, that feels pretty much instant. If your app is remotely hosted, the main benefit is orthogonal, being convenient access (100% portable dev environment) - so, as JS and networks improve, it becomes more compelling. Test and integration servers can also be remotely hosted - no need to edit the live app. (This approach, like vim-editing remote files, has appealed to me for a long time).
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On the mailing list, it's planned as a local server + browser http://groups.google.com/group/light-table/browse_thread/thr... I was thinking a webapp version would be easy to monetize (monthly), but it only makes sense when you have to store data - which I now realize could be the code itself. :) A front-end for developing hosted projects.
It could be sold to amazon AWS, heroku, google apps, IBM/Oracle etc; and perhaps to github, bitbucket, dropbox when they start hosting apps - or start a new dev cloud. (of course, still provide the local server version).
Maybe problems with network latency + javascript performance... but might work for some divisions of labour, on some platforms (e.g. iPad). Network latency is worth it, if the result is faster than a local server could do... and if roundtrip + server was 100-200ms, that feels pretty much instant. If your app is remotely hosted, the main benefit is orthogonal, being convenient access (100% portable dev environment) - so, as JS and networks improve, it becomes more compelling. Test and integration servers can also be remotely hosted - no need to edit the live app. (This approach, like vim-editing remote files, has appealed to me for a long time).