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Whoaaaaaa. It's reactive?? Not sure I'd want that in all situations, but what an incredibly powerful feature.
by civilized 5y ago
Whoaaaaaa. It's reactive?? Not sure I'd want that in all situations, but what an incredibly powerful feature.
- adgjlsfhk1 5y agoIt's a seriously cool piece of tech.
- civilized 5y agoNothing will ever kill spreadsheets, but if something did, it would be this.
- fault1 5y agospreadsheets are the ultimate reactive interface. I wish there were a mashup of the notebook/spreadsheet paradigm that was reactive.
- adgjlsfhk1 5y agoYou realize that Pluto is a reactive notebook right?
- fault1 5y agopluto is not a spreadsheet though. Observablejs just got support for Excel and Google sheets, which is really interesting and probably the closest thing to an integrated reactive spreadsheet/notebook concept: https://observablehq.com/@observablehq/release-notes#cell-801 https://observablehq.com/@observablehq/release-notes#cell-80... ironically, I remember seeing features like what I'm thinking of, which was first spreadsheet I ever used- Wingz: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Informix_Wingz https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Informix_Wingz it had a mode where you could take portion of your cells and make it flow exactly like a notebook
- fault1 5y agoyou can add execution barriers to individual cells for long running processes. here is a linear algebra class taught in pluto/julia (not mine, but found it on a random google search): https://www.math.hkust.edu.hk/~emarberg/teaching/2020/Math2121/ https://www.math.hkust.edu.hk/~emarberg/teaching/2020/Math21... so I think the approach is great at least for education. the notebooks work automagically in binder! I think people are working on a wasm codegen for julia, which should a killer feature.