Re:Neuron, a new VS Code extension for data science
by yodon on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @11:57AM
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Looking through the issues list you linked to, lack of conda support [0] looks like a pretty big deal for most people doing heavy analysis in Python.
Re:Neuron, a new VS Code extension for data science
by pavanagrawal123 on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @12:54PM
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This is a big issue, and fixed in my fork here: https://github.com/pavanagrawal123/VSNotebooks. Unfortunately, neuron already seems to be dead :( so I created a fork with a bunch of new features and additions!
Re:Neuron, a new VS Code extension for data science
by curiousgal on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @12:10PM
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What problem does conda try to solve?
Re:Neuron, a new VS Code extension for data science
by dual_basis on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @12:20PM
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In general, it is a package manager which supports different environments. It is similar to pipenv, but existed before. I believe there are still some differences, for instance conda is language agnostic, and it particularly was useful for data science where you would want the compiled version of certain dependencies (eg. MKL) for performance reasons. This SO answer seems like a good overview: https://stackoverflow.com/q/20994716/1060781
There are still a few important missing features unfortunately (see the issues page: https://github.com/lorenzo2897/vscode-ipe/issues), but there's a lot of promise!