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Is there something like Jupyter for Javascript/Typescript, ideally self hosted? At the moment I just do data science using one off scripts in NodeJS but seeing these notebook style formats recently where different chunks of code appear to be snapshotted and then visualisations can be easily integrated looks quite nice.
This sort of high performance minimalism is precisely what makes the Mac app ecosystem great. Not because you can't write the same thing on other platforms, but because everyone who cares about it has condensed on the Mac platform. Would love to see this adopt the document-based app API and the toolbar API.
Did you read the post at all? "Full disclosure: it's built with Electron. I originally wrote it in Swift but couldn't get the editor experience to where I wanted it. Now it supports autocomplete, multi-cursor editing, and moving the cursor between cells just like you'd expect from JupyterLab or VS Code" It's not a native Mac app, it's a standard electron app.
This sort of high performance minimalism is precisely what makes the Mac app ecosystem great. Not because you can't write the same thing on other platforms, but because everyone who cares about it has condensed on the Mac platform. Would love to see this adopt the document-based app API and the toolbar API.
Why “modern”? I suggest you use more descriptive adjectives.
Can someone explain their views on Jupyter notebooks? As far as I can tell, the instructor/content creators will set up the "notebook" and students can read the notes and click on the "play" button to see it work in action. Is there anything else besides that? I guess I'm old school and am used to cutting and pasting and running things in my own terminal, so I'm wondering if there are added benefits that I'm not awar…
Congrats! Sorry if you shared here below and I missed it, but I'd love to hear what exactly didn't work out with a pure Swift approach. I'm trying that route for a SQL client based on duckdb (as a side project) and would be very helpful to avoid similar pitfalls for example.
I’m still hoping for something that is at least 80% as functional and integrated as RStudio is for R.
To be frank, I don't see any additional features of the app over VSCode, other than it starts up faster, which does not matter much as VSCode starts up faster than the import cell of any notebooks I have. Also, one big reason I use VSCode for notebook is to get the Python LSP. Good luck to you though, I do think the demographics of scientists who find VSCode confusing is actually sizeable.
Can someone explain their views on Jupyter notebooks? As far as I can tell, the instructor/content creators will set up the "notebook" and students can read the notes and click on the "play" button to see it work in action. Is there anything else besides that? I guess I'm old school and am used to cutting and pasting and running things in my own terminal, so I'm wondering if there are added benefits that I'm not awar…
I've switched virtually all of my work to Jupyter, including some lab automation, but also data analysis, modeling, visualization, and so forth. I use it as an interactive lab notebook that can "do" things.
Of all the tools I've used in 40+ years, my Jupyter notebooks are the best thing I've experienced for being able to go back and understand things I've done, weeks or years later.
When I use other editing software such as word processing, I quickly reach a point where I say to myself: "I wish I could just pop a code cell in here."
As a fairly mature technology, Jupyter has a lot of known quirks and shortcomings (I'm talking about you, out-of-order execution and hidden state), but I'm putting up with them because the benefits are huge.
I’m still hoping for something that is at least 80% as functional and integrated as RStudio is for R.