Man, I'm late posting this, but this is exactly what we're building with Anvil - https://anvil.works https://anvil.works > Superior scripting language We use

Man, I'm late posting this, but this is exactly what we're building with Anvil - https://anvil.works https://anvil.works > Superior scripting language We use Python - on the client and on the server (with rich RPC between the two). > Steal ideas from GUI-focused languages and toolkits The biggest such idea is that most layouts should be done visually - Visual Basic had this right, and we've been moving backwards ever since. (The web has three, usually four intermediate representations you have to think through to edit your appearance: Template (->substitution->) HTML (->parsing->) DOM (->CSS render->) visual layout)