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Interactive notebooks ~ Pluto.jl | Fons van der Plas | JuliaCon 2020

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What it is

Fons van der Plas introduces Pluto.jl, a reactive notebook for Julia that tracks references between cells and re-runs affected cells when code changes. The talk was given at JuliaCon 2020.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN recommends it as an enthusiastic demo of spreadsheet-like reactive notebooks, which commenters think new notebook projects should copy.

  • 6 people recommended it
  • 4 different months
  • 4 strong recommendations
  • first 2020, last 2021

What HN commenters said

  1. “Watch the following video made by Pluto's creators”

    Introduces Pluto, a reactive notebook that updates like a spreadsheet.

    pmdulaney, 2020-08 · Strong recommendation · in “JuliaCon 2020 in Retrospective”

  2. “I would like to draw attention to the wonderful JuliaCon talk presenting Pluto”

    Wonderful JuliaCon talk presenting Pluto.

    snicker7, 2020-11 · Strong recommendation · in “An Introduction to Pluto”

  3. “I think every new notebook project should take ideas from Julia's Pluto”

    Presents Pluto ideas that new notebook projects should adopt.

    mathnmusic, 2020-12 · Strong recommendation · in “Niex: Jupyter Notebooks but Using Elixir”

  4. “the JuliacCn presentation on these is absolutely wonderful”

    Explains Pluto's spreadsheet-like reactive notebook model.

    wodenokoto, 2021-12 · Strong recommendation · in “Bad Data and Data Engineering: Dissecting Google Play Music Takeout Data”

  5. “the playful enthusiasm in the presentation video linked in the description just makes me smile”

    Playful, enthusiastic presentation of Pluto.

    vanderZwan, 2020-08 · Recommendation · in “Pluto.jl – a reactive, lightweight, simple notebook”

  6. “Demonstration of Pluto.jl here”

    Demonstrates automatic dependencies and sliders updating plots in real time.

    socialdemocrat, 2020-11 · Recommendation · in “Ditch Excel and Use Julia Data Frames”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: pluto.jl, julia, notebooks, reactive programming, dependency graph

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