Joyent Slingshot uses Ruby on Rails to create webapps that you run on your desktop that can sync up with the server side. It’s designed to provide an easily installable program for Windows and Mac. This is a good idea and it’s good timing for this product, because it’s coming out head-to-head against Adobe’s Apollo. Apollo could be huge, but it’s just getting going.
For those who have been following my blog, TurboGears was actually extracted from a desktop webapp. I didn’t have a need for the sync part of the equation, but I did indeed create an easy way for me to build Windows and Mac double-clickable apps (with little bits of platform-specific GUI to make it nice).
Good luck to Joyent with the new product! Spiffy stuff!
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March 24th, 2007 at 9:24 am
“…I did indeed create an easy way for me to build Windows and Mac double-clickable apps (with little bits of platform-specific GUI to make it nice).”
Any plans on releasing it, so that Python programmers can play too?
March 24th, 2007 at 7:17 pm
The idea is interesting, but we’ll see how they price it for non-hosting customers:
“While we continue to kick around different business models for Joyent Slingshot, we can safely say that Slingshot will be available for free to developers that host their Rails application on Joyent Accelerators. Other uses of Slingshot will be allowed, but we haven’t finalized the pricing for those uses. Everyone using Joyent Connector will get a version of Joyent Connector on Slingshot for free.”
March 24th, 2007 at 10:23 pm
how is this better/different then using dojo offline storage?