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There's also the problem of executing other people's code in your visitors machines, but maybe that isn't so bad -- or could be solved by running a better language than raw Javascript.
I know this sounds like a silly idea, but what do you think?
Now a question: have you thought about just running code blocks on the client? It would have limitations, but I guess most tasks could be accomplished, and the backend running costs would be enormously smaller. There's also the problem of executing other people's code in your visitors machines, but maybe that isn't so bad -- or could be solved by running a better language than raw Javascript. I know this sounds like…
I think this would be very useful for non-coders. For example, some days ago a friend of mine was struggling to get just the emails addresses from a list of names+emails he had in an Excel file.
Now a question: have you thought about just running code blocks on the client? It would have limitations, but I guess most tasks could be accomplished, and the backend running costs would be enormously smaller. There's also the problem of executing other people's code in your visitors machines, but maybe that isn't so bad -- or could be solved by running a better language than raw Javascript. I know this sounds like…
An example that I did with the platform was, parse Skype chat log (500MB ish) of it, and look search for specific strings and dump it back as CSV by stringing 3 functions together, all running inside web workers.
Now a question: have you thought about just running code blocks on the client? It would have limitations, but I guess most tasks could be accomplished, and the backend running costs would be enormously smaller. There's also the problem of executing other people's code in your visitors machines, but maybe that isn't so bad -- or could be solved by running a better language than raw Javascript. I know this sounds like…