nightcraft

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   by nightcraft 2y ago

   Thanks!
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   by nightcraft 2y ago

   Thanks! That's correct: 2, 3, and 5 are currently available. This initial set was intended as a minimal (albeit limited) set that demonstrates the UI capabilities. More widgets/controls (including the ones you've mentioned) a
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   by nightcraft 2y ago

   It does show you the active variables (and bits of details like shapes and dtypes for numpy arrays, torch tensors, dataframes, etc): https://scripton.dev/assets/images/lib-symbols@2x.png However, I'm assuming
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   by nightcraft 2y ago

   Thanks! The C++ bit comes in for the IPC (inter-process communication) between the IDE and Python. There are a few different ways for the Python process to communicate (send data over for visualization, receive/transmit commands, etc)
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   by nightcraft 2y ago

   Some folks do like hold-to-quit to avoid accidentally quitting (similar to Chrome's default behavior). However, point taken - it'll be configurable in the next update.
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   by nightcraft 2y ago

   IMO, VSCode's codebase is excellent and quite well designed with most functionality abstracted out into injectable services. However, the interaction of these services and other bits of architecture do impose certain limitations that a
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   by nightcraft 2y ago

   Thanks, appreciate the feedback! While the initial focus is on visualization capabilities, the missing IDE features are actively under development. Beyond cross-platform support, which PyCharm features would you consider essential and would
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   by nightcraft 2y ago

   The vscode extensions path, unfortunately, would have been too restrictive for many of Scripton's features/technical requirements (tightly coupled REPL, minimal IPC overhead, ...)
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   by nightcraft 2y ago

   Yup, it was written from scratch. Yeah, having a flexible virtualized table certainly makes it easier to build more complex things on top (a lesson I initially learned from NSTableView/UITableView). Currently, it's not user extend
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    by nightcraft 2y ago

    Thanks! GitHub Copilot support is actively under development.
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    by nightcraft 2y ago

    The plan for now is just subscriptions. However, I would like to eventually have something like Jetbrains' "perpetual fallback license" where you can keep using up to a particular version after, say, a year of subscription.
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    by nightcraft 2y ago

    Coincidentally, one of the first components I wrote for Scripton was a virtualized table for handling million+ row dataframes with Tufte-esque inline visualizations (in a much evolved form, it currently backs the REPL). The data table got d
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    by nightcraft 2y ago

    The scripton Python library internally transforms many common Python data formats (regular arrays and dicts, numpy arrays, data frames, ...) to an intermediate format. These are transferred to the IDE when you call the plotting functions, a
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    by nightcraft 2y ago

    Not yet. Some internal prototypes did try using IOSurfaces on macOS to go with the zero copy route, but there were a fair number of limitations. That said, the IPC minimizes copies and is actually fairly efficient at handling large numerica
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    by nightcraft 2y ago

    Thanks! The initial prototype did use React, but the overhead in certain cases soon became an issue. It got replaced by a custom virtual dom implementation (coincidentally quite similar to Atom's Etch), but debugging complex updates re
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    Show HN: Scripton – Python IDE with built-in realtime visualizations(scripton.dev)

    449 points by nightcraft 2y ago|139 comments