Someone ported Linux to javascript, right?
You just need to set up some kind of persistent storage (over nfs perhaps) on the server side so students have a place to save their files.
I know the performance ain't great; maybe this shows a need for middle abstraction level between low-level syscall emulation and high-level shell. An eXtensible VM Specification, that could then be implemented in a language/shardware independent manner.
Someone ported Linux to javascript, right? You just need to set up some kind of persistent storage (over nfs perhaps) on the server side so students have a place to save their files. I know the performance ain't great; maybe this shows a need for middle abstraction level between low-level syscall emulation and high-level shell. An eXtensible VM Specification, that could then be implemented in a language/shardware independent manner.