Yesterday Stephen Wolfram announced Wolfram Programming Cloud Is Live!. The post far too often explains how he's been "working toward this for nearly 30 years" but it looks really fascinating.
Here's the example code he shows:
Classify["Language", "good afternoon"]["LargestCountry"]["Flag"]
That is a program that looks at the text "good afternoon" figures out that its language is English, finds the largest country where English is spoken and returns a picture of its flag. He writes a little more code to embed the two letter country on the image.
But then he goes on to show, "But OK, so we’ve got a function that does something. Now what can we do with it? Well, this is one of the big things about the Wolfram Programming Cloud: it lets us use the Wolfram Language to deploy the function to the cloud." It's one line to describe the parameters and get back a live URL that can be called from anywhere on the web. There's some licensing involved to do anything real, but this demos amazingly well. I suspect it will remain a niche because it basically requires developers to know Mathematica (or more properly Wolfram Language).
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