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Finally. I've been saying this should be done for ages[1]

[1] Here's a 2010 blog post I made saying "do matlab in JS, make money". http://www.puremango.co.uk/2010/10/ten-ideas/

What about Wakari[1]? Full Python and IPython, in the browser, backed by AWS, online interactive plotting (via Bokeh[2]). One click sharing of IPython notebooks. Enterprise version is installable on your own machine or cluster.

[1] http://wakari.io [2] http://github.com/ContinuumIO/bokeh

Except this isn't what this is. Matlab is far more than a plotting tool, and requires heavy computational resources: the closest you're going to get to Matlab in the browser is a hosted ipython/sage-style solution (which already exists, albeit in a form that isn't user-friendly enough).

What about mathics? http://www.mathics.org/

(just to be clear - I know mathics is a hosted solution, and uses Sage. I'm asking, does this meet your 'user friendly enough' criteria)

In fact we (Wolfram) hired the primary Mathics developer to work on Mathematica Online, which will be released in the next few months: http://www.wolfram.com/mathematica-online/

Beta testers wanted!

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