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Re:Show HN: Observable Notebooks by goatlover on Wednesday January 31, 2018 @02:31PM (#16276791)
No doubt you're right, but I don't think JS is well suited for scientific computing. At least Python gives you operator overloading. Julia and R are designed for this field. It's better for JS to remain on the presentation side for anything sophisticated.
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Re:Show HN: Observable Notebooks by colbyh on Wednesday January 31, 2018 @02:42PM (#16276881)
Forgive me if I read the response wrong but that seems like exactly what the author is saying? Do your computing in Python/R, export a generated CSV, and then present it in Observable?
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Re:Show HN: Observable Notebooks by goatlover on Wednesday January 31, 2018 @02:58PM (#16276999)
With the possibility that WebAssembly and WebGL will make the libraries in Python/R available to JS. Which might be alright. You probably won't be able to utilize vectorization with operators.
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