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Thanks! That's correct: 2, 3, and 5 are currently available. This initial set was intended as a minimal (albeit limited) set that demonstrates the UI capabilities. More widgets/con…

It does show you the active variables (and bits of details like shapes and dtypes for numpy arrays, torch tensors, dataframes, etc): https://scripton.dev/assets/images/lib-symbols@…

Thanks! The C++ bit comes in for the IPC (inter-process communication) between the IDE and Python. There are a few different ways for the Python process to communicate (send data o…

Some folks do like hold-to-quit to avoid accidentally quitting (similar to Chrome's default behavior). However, point taken - it'll be configurable in the next update.

IMO, VSCode's codebase is excellent and quite well designed with most functionality abstracted out into injectable services. However, the interaction of these services and other bi…

Thanks, appreciate the feedback! While the initial focus is on visualization capabilities, the missing IDE features are actively under development. Beyond cross-platform support, w…

The vscode extensions path, unfortunately, would have been too restrictive for many of Scripton's features/technical requirements (tightly coupled REPL, minimal IPC overhead, ...)

Yup, it was written from scratch. Yeah, having a flexible virtualized table certainly makes it easier to build more complex things on top (a lesson I initially learned from NSTable…

Thanks! GitHub Copilot support is actively under development.

The plan for now is just subscriptions. However, I would like to eventually have something like Jetbrains' "perpetual fallback license" where you can keep using up to a particular …

Coincidentally, one of the first components I wrote for Scripton was a virtualized table for handling million+ row dataframes with Tufte-esque inline visualizations (in a much evol…

The scripton Python library internally transforms many common Python data formats (regular arrays and dicts, numpy arrays, data frames, ...) to an intermediate format. These are tr…

Not yet. Some internal prototypes did try using IOSurfaces on macOS to go with the zero copy route, but there were a fair number of limitations. That said, the IPC minimizes copies…

Thanks! The initial prototype did use React, but the overhead in certain cases soon became an issue. It got replaced by a custom virtual dom implementation (coincidentally quite si…

Hey HN, Scripton ( https://scripton.dev ) is a Python IDE built for fast, interactive visualizations and exploratory programming — without the constraints of notebooks. Why another…