Google is entering the web application service business, a bit like Amazon's S3 + EC2, but going considerably further by also including a Ruby On Rails mechanism (based on Python and Django, though). This 10-minute video gives an fantastic overview:



It's particularly interesting to see how the workflow comes together with just TextMate and Safari, there is no explicit compile or even save, it's all based on a single mechanism: Render == Run. Which, as it turns out, is exactly how I've been doing my own small-scale web app development - based on an internal package called Mavrig. This is the way to build web apps, if you ask me, all the way to the deployment approach used at the end of the above video.

Ok, so "all" I have to do now is finish Vlerq and Mavrig, to show how Tcl + Metakit technology can achieve the same effectiveness, but with an order of magnitude less complexity than Python + Django (+ SQLite in local mode, presumably).

I wonder how long it'll take for this to show up on iPhones and iPod Touches...