[dangoor]

Thanks for the comments! Very interesting to hear about your experiences.

I'm the product manager for Bespin, so I'd certainly be happy to say a couple of things about the status.

Since the Bespin that you've used, we've been putting a ton of effort into the infrastructure on the client side. We intend to keep pushing on the client side until it's an editor that is very competitive with desktop editors. Right now, there are still some gaps we need to fill in (for example, the editor doesn't support real tabs). But the infrastructure we have has firmed up very nicely. It's got the potential for lots of interesting plugins. Our keyboard system supports pluggable keybindings (just waiting for someone to come along and build up emacs and vi :) We've got an Embedded package that's easy to hook up to whatever site/server you need to.

And that's where the server change referred to here comes from. We're going to redo the server with an eye toward people running their own Bespins, which eliminates scalability and security concerns that make it hard to implement the most useful Bespin possible.

There are many people using Bespin in their own applications today, and that package just keeps getting better. For the folks like you using the full server, there will be a dip in functionality, but in the end you'll be able to get a Bespin server that can do anything you care to make it do via plugins.