I didn't think much of this article at all. I was expecting something possibly related to NetKernel or 9p, but was presented with... Thrift? A more productive

I didn't think much of this article at all. I was expecting something possibly related to NetKernel or 9p, but was presented with... Thrift? A more productive discussion might have started with Ext.Direct or Dojo RPC, but even those are just complementary channels, not alternatives.