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It completely fixes a huge number of the gripes in the JupyterCon talk I don't like notebooks by Joel Grus. The primary complaint there is that notebooks have

by 3JPLW 6y ago

It completely fixes a huge number of the gripes in the JupyterCon talk I don't like notebooks by Joel Grus. The primary complaint there is that notebooks have a disconnect between the state of the program and the display of the cells. By using a completely reactive mode the state is no longer hidden. It's more akin to a spreadsheet than a notebook. A number of other complaints are completely circumvented by using a file format that's simply a pure Julia file with clever comments. Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jiPeIFXb6U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jiPeIFXb6U Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1n2RlMdmv1p25Xy5thJUhkKGvjtV-dkAIsUXP-AL4ffI/edit#slide=id.g362da58057_0_1 https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1n2RlMdmv1p25Xy5thJUh... Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17856700 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17856700

levesque 6y ago
Now we just need to port all this over to python... or switch to Julia? Which one would take the least amount of effort?
- ChrisRackauckas 6y ago
  Switching to Julia. You can just use PyCall to call all of your old code, so py"\paste" and you're using Pluto is like a 1 minute process. Then you can get fancy later.
- ScottPJones 6y ago
  You'll also save a lot of effort in future endeavors, IMO. Remember, once you've switched to Julia, Python is still only a `using PyCall` and `pyimport` away!