[yiyus]

Thank you very much for a very detailed answer. It is much clearer to me what are the strengths of the project now.

Something I wonder is if there are any plans to make blabs capable of dealing with the heavy computations needed in scientific applications (obviously using some sort of FFI or external solvers), or are they only intended for "interactive exploration"?

[gballan]

I don't see Blabr as a tool for problems that take a long time to run.

On the other hand, that doesn't mean that we can only aspire to minor problems in the browser. For instance, [0] solves a famous nonlinear PDE (which was a heavy computation not that long ago).

So, yes, Blabr is for "interactive exploration". But, I believe that allows a large (and increasing) range of interesting problems.

[0] http://blabr.io/?37642ee8c920dcb69ac1