Hmm. I don't know about JSON and REST, but an API would definitely be interesting. In general, I think Wolfram (the company and the man himself) has a very narr

Hmm. I don't know about JSON and REST, but an API would definitely be interesting. In general, I think Wolfram (the company and the man himself) has a very narrow Mathematica-centric view of the world. Every feature begins and ends in the Mathematica notebook interface. That's very limiting. A good full API would let me use a sane interface (see my other comment about the horrible notebook interface experience with more complex expressions), it would let me use Mathematica in server environments, it would let me make use of Mathematica as a service (which I'd like Wolfram to offer). Related: I always wished for a Mathematica computational service in the cloud, so that I could offload my larger computations right from the interface. Instead of computing that matrix on my crappy local computer, send everything off to a powerful computer and do it there.