This is awesome, and I'd use it immediately if I could install it on a machine of mine.
One interesting thing to pursue may be memoization for block output (perhaps with limited slots or TTL).
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#22Amazing! Do you have plans to make it srlf-hosted? I'd love to try it!
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#23Nice tool !
IMO a self hosted option is mandatory for product adoption as python is often used to process data, which might be confidential enough to prevent the use of SaaS tooling from a not "Well Known" service provider...
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#24I love it, I am not sure yet what I am going to do with it but I definitely want to use it. I really love this kind of software and the execution focuses on the right spots.
This looks like the result of a lot of work, keep on !
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#25A tangent: how hard would it be to integrate Elm into this? I think as a language it has a lot of teaching potential combined with natto.
One library that could be useful is elm-ta-interop maybe...
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#26> - Dependencies are explicit. There is no parsing or global scope.
I can't express how happy it makes me to read this! So many "modern" tools these days come with global state and force you to do lots of implicit dependency juggling. This makes it hard to test things, to read code, to re-use code… It's as if we have to keep re-learning the same lessons again, and again, and again…
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#27Nice tool ! IMO a self hosted option is mandatory for product adoption as python is often used to process data, which might be confidential enough to prevent the use of SaaS tooling from a not "Well Known" service provider...
It's pyodide so I imagine everything is happening in the browser...
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#28> By default, cells rerun whenever its code changes or an input reruns, like a spreadsheet! This is transformational — I’ve been using Pluto.jl a lot lately for prototyping library code and doing data analysis. Now when I work in python I find myself really missing that reactivity. The closest thing I’ve found is streamlit, which is cool but not quite as liberating IMO Can’t wait to try it!
>> By default, cells rerun whenever its code changes or an input reruns, like a spreadsheet! > This is transformational Just a note, but this has been around for forever in tools and languages like TouchDesigner, vvvv, Max, Pure Data, LabVIEW, with various permutations on the idea.
Cool, thanks for the references! LabVIEW is the only one I’d heard of
I didn’t mean to imply that there’s no prior art (observable also comes to mind), but I’ve just gotten so frustrated lately with how easy it is to make an unsustainable mess in jupyter. Factoring code into modules and auto loading those helps, but it’s still easy to get in trouble with implicit state
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#29Nice tool ! IMO a self hosted option is mandatory for product adoption as python is often used to process data, which might be confidential enough to prevent the use of SaaS tooling from a not "Well Known" service provider...
It's pyodide so I imagine everything is happening in the browser...
> Python execution happens in your browser as WASM via Pyodide
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#30> By default, cells rerun whenever its code changes or an input reruns, like a spreadsheet! This is transformational — I’ve been using Pluto.jl a lot lately for prototyping library code and doing data analysis. Now when I work in python I find myself really missing that reactivity. The closest thing I’ve found is streamlit, which is cool but not quite as liberating IMO Can’t wait to try it!
>> By default, cells rerun whenever its code changes or an input reruns, like a spreadsheet! > This is transformational Just a note, but this has been around for forever in tools and languages like TouchDesigner, vvvv, Max, Pure Data, LabVIEW, with various permutations on the idea.
RxPy and "Functional Reactive Programming" (Flow Based Programming) also seem related, albeit they are not visual tools.