Pluto.jl 1.0 release – reactive notebook for Julia(discourse.julialang.org)
117 pointsby fons-p10 hours ago8 comments
  • librastevean hour ago
    This looks like an interesting project, coming from another minority language - Raku - I can see how dogfooding like this is a great way to try and help Julia break into the Python hegemony (yawn) esp. in academic circles. otoh, I am not sure that a pure play Julia notebook thing is long run better than a pure play Python thing (Jupyter ofc).

    Yet notebooks are a vital angle for any scripting language. So I guess I would like to see a language neutral notebook platform with pluggable kernels. Meantime Jupyter does that pretty well and, with Raku Inline::Python support for pip modules can be a lot of fun with a Raku kernel, especially with LLM chatbook use cases.

    https://raku.land/zef:bduggan/Jupyter::Kernel

  • shibaprasadb3 minutes ago
    Are people using Julia in the industries yet? This looks promising.
  • wodenokoto4 hours ago
    As I recall, Pluto really got into the spotlight, pre-pandemic with the course "Introduction to Computational Thinking with Julia", which as I remember went kinda viral (or maybe just in my bubble)

    It was a nice course, I did the first few weeks before life got in the way. It looks like they did one more in 2020 with a focus on COVID:

    https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/18-s190-introduction-to-computat...

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  • Majikujanisch29 minutes ago
    Just used it this week for my university course, was one of those exercises that actually were fun and educative.
  • slwvx6 hours ago
    I would love Pluto but am completely put off by the output of a command being shown above the command that creates it. Sure, maybe the whole notebook is reactive, and I shouldn't care, but I still see Pluto as producing something close to a document or web page, which I want to read from top to bottom, and can't do with Pluto. This single feature/problem has kept me away from Pluto
    • galleywest2005 hours ago
      I also would like if they gave you a toggle option to display the output below the code boxes instead of above, but I still like Pluto.
  • flexagoonan hour ago
    Reactive notebooks are so much better. Using Pluto or Livebook makes you realize how inconvenient and illogical Jupyter is in comparison.
    • FabHK3 minutes ago
      I mean, there is nothing wrong with state, per se, and yes, this Excel-ish paradigm is awesome.

      Although: Most Excel power users have automatic calculations disabled. Why? They want to control when full calculations. If you know that you want to change three things, you can change three things (in the correct order, which you - fair enough - must know), then calculate the rest (F9 in Excel, recalc below in Jupyter if - fair enough - your notebook is in topological order).

      In Pluto, you sort of rely on your calculations being quick.

  • thetwentyone5 hours ago
    Pluto has been quite nice for me to use over the last few years and I even host notebooks using the SliderServer to let others run analysis and examples from the web.
  • whatever15 hours ago
    These days it is so easy to just build a full fledged react website with interactive components served locally, personally I just stopped trying to build language specific UIs.
    • vovavilian hour ago
      I think of reactive notebooks as a visual REPL for your particular language. If they compete with anything, it's more with dashboarding software than with React.
    • KeplerBoyan hour ago
      That's true. You can just point the agent at a python function and tell it to slap some fastapi around that and spin up a frontend.