Pluto.jl – a reactive, lightweight, simple notebook

Re:Pluto.jl – a reactive, lightweight, simple notebook by 3JPLW on Friday August 28, 2020 @10:35AM (#24305349)

It completely fixes a huge number of the gripes in the JupyterCon talk I don't like notebooks by Joel Grus.

The primary complaint there is that notebooks have a disconnect between the state of the program and the display of the cells. By using a completely reactive mode the state is no longer hidden. It's more akin to a spreadsheet than a notebook. A number of other complaints are completely circumvented by using a file format that's simply a pure Julia file with clever comments.

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jiPeIFXb6U

Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1n2RlMdmv1p25Xy5thJUh...

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17856700

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Re:Pluto.jl – a reactive, lightweight, simple notebook by levesque on Friday August 28, 2020 @05:24PM (#24310139)

Now we just need to port all this over to python... or switch to Julia? Which one would take the least amount of effort?

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Re:Pluto.jl – a reactive, lightweight, simple notebook by ChrisRackauckas on Saturday August 29, 2020 @11:20AM (#24316669)

Switching to Julia. You can just use PyCall to call all of your old code, so py"\paste" and you're using Pluto is like a 1 minute process. Then you can get fancy later.

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Re:Pluto.jl – a reactive, lightweight, simple notebook by ScottPJones on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @03:39PM (#24346072)

You'll also save a lot of effort in future endeavors, IMO. Remember, once you've switched to Julia, Python is still only a `using PyCall` and `pyimport` away!

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