Comment by mike_hearn
3 months ago
Egont sounds a bit like SQL, no? A social way to share data and work with it ... a shared RDBMS where everyone has a user account and can create tables/share them with other users, built in security, etc. Splat a GUI on top and you have something similar.
Modern web frameworks are getting pretty declarative. If you want a basic web app with a log in/out page that's not hard to do. I'm more familiar with Micronaut than Spring but you'd just add:
micronaut.security.authentication=cookie
and the relevant dependencies. Now you write a class that checks the username/password, or use LDAP, or configure OAuth and the /login URL takes a POST of username/password. Write a bit of HTML that looks good for your website and you're done.
https://micronaut-projects.github.io/micronaut-security/late...
> Egont sounds a bit like SQL, no? A social way to share data and work with it ... a shared RDBMS where everyone has a user account and can create tables/share them with other users, built in security, etc. Splat a GUI on top and you have something similar.
Yes, SQL or a global spreadsheet. I would say that it is like SQL plus a DAG or, we can imagine an aggregation of SQLs. The interesting thing is that parts of the global system are only recalculated if there is a change, like in a spreadsheet.
> a shared RDBMS where everyone has a user account and can create tables/share them with other users, built in security, etc. Splat a GUI on top and you have something similar.
We need a little bit more but not much more: security by namespaces and/or rows so the same database is shared but you can restrict who change what: your "rows" are yours. I think something like OrbitDB but with namespaces will be cool.
> Modern web frameworks are getting pretty declarative.
Yes but my proposal was at a higher level. I don't want to know what a cookie is when I just want to create a website. I am not saying that you can create complex components with this idea but you can create common use cases.