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i think that orgmode notebook programing generally beats anything else out of the water, including jupyter. i actually dont uderstand why it hasnt gotten bigger

i think that orgmode notebook programing generally beats anything else out of the water, including jupyter. i actually dont uderstand why it hasnt gotten bigger attention in the communities thatvuse jupyter as for cl, if you enjoy learning it in this way you can convert norvig's paip book from md to org format using pandoc https://github.com/norvig/paip-lisp https://github.com/norvig/paip-lisp

Jtsummers 5y ago
Org babel is great, but it's emacs only. That's why it's not used much compared to Jupyter and others. Also, there is at least one thing that would make it better: Dependency analysis across blocks for automatic re-execution. Of course, that's probably non-trivial to do across every language that org-babel supports. Pluto does this for Julia, you can break it (I have) by using certain styles in the code block (making it hard for it to detect the use) but it is nice if you work with it. org-babel is also nice even if you aren't doing interactive programming, though. I used it to dissect a complex (150k SLOC or so) C++ program that had piss poor "documentation" (auto-generated UML diagrams and similar garbage). By converting each file to a giant source block and then extracting portions I was able to make sense of it much faster than just reading the raw code. I also left the team with my full notes which amounted to a couple volumes worth of material (code + prose) in the end.