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Everyone of late has big plans for the cloud, including Mozilla, who on Thursday launched an open-soure project called Bespin. The basic idea behind Bespin is to offer a web-based programming framework that brings together the speed of desktop-based development with cloud computing. While in very early form, Mozilla has set some high-level goals for the project:
As it stands now, Bespin 0.1 is just an initial prototype framework with support for basic editing features like syntax highlighting, undo/redo, previewing files in the browser, and other low-level tasks. In the long-run, Mozilla hopes to "empower web developers to hack on the editor itself and make it their own."
Developers who want to give the early prototype a whirl can access the Bespin demo here.
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Keith E. Whisman
February 17, 2009 at 10:54pm
I do appreciate the reference to Star Wars The Empire Strikes Back. Bespin is home to Cloud City and Darth Vaders choice location for trapping and confronting Luke Skywalker. Luke lost a limb but Vader gained a son.
The Force will be with you always. I like this one alot better though, May the Schwartz be with you.
Keith E. Whisman
February 17, 2009 at 4:20am
Another reason why I don't like cloud computing is that it's anticompetitive. You have a choice in Cloud computing like if you use Googles Cloud service you can only use Googles software. You can't purchase software from a third party and use it on the Google Cloud. This whole thing is a scheme to push out companies that can't build their own cloud networks. We can say goodbye to small companies that have a product that google won't buy for their cloud network or MS's cloud network. Basically I freaking hate cloud computing.
Cloud computing is nothing new it's always been around on workstations where you only have the networked keyboard, mouse and display. But that is for businesses. Cloud computing should stay right there because all it's going to do is set the hardware industry back ten years. No more high speed processors because the cloud does all the computing, no need for 3d because the cloud is 2d to save on bandwidth.
So if Cloud computing really takes off then everyone and his mother is going to dedicate their time and resources to developing Cloud tech and we can forget about innovation on 3D gaming. This sucks. I don't want to have to buy a got damned console just to play more than solitaire.
