Hey - tried to play the video with Chrome/Fedora, and no go! Got any other formats available? Alan
On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 1:23 PM, Jony Hudson <jonyepsi...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm pleased to announce the first release of Gorilla REPL, a rich REPL in > the notebook style: > > https://github.com/JonyEpsilon/gorilla-repl > > From the README: > > "You can think of it like a pretty REPL that can plot graphs, or you can > think of it as an editor for rich documents that can contain interactive > Clojure code, graphs, table, notes, LaTeX formulae. Whatever works for you! > One of the main aims is to make it lightweight enough that you can use it > day-to-day instead of the command-line REPL, but also offer the power to > perform and document complex data analysis and modelling tasks. Above all > else, Gorilla tries not to dictate your workflow, but rather to fit in to > the way you like to work, hopefully putting a bit more power to your elbow." > > You might like to take a look at a video introduction that shows what it > does better than my poor prose describes it: > > https://vimeo.com/87118206 > > I hope you like it and find it useful. In particular I really hope it fits > in to your workflow, and if not it would be great to know why. Bear in mind > it is very new and hasn't had a lot of testing, so caveat evaluator. In > particular: > > * I've done very limited testing other than on Safari on Mac. I've checked > that it works in most of the major browsers on Windows and Mac, but that's > about it! > > * At the moment you can only open one window otherwise it breaks > (silently!). I'd love some help on the bug that's blocking this from > someone who understands nREPL better than me. > https://github.com/JonyEpsilon/gorilla-repl/issues/10 > > * It relies on an internet connection at the moment, at least until it > caches various fonts. Need to get in touch with someone at clojars about > size limitations. > > > I think there's a lot still to be done, and there are some areas that > would really benefit from feedback from clojure developers more experienced > than me. Directions I'd love to see explored: > > * More work on plotting. Still very green, and much could be improved. > > * Incanter integration. If I've understood correctly, Incanter can > generate SVG, so shouldn't be too difficult. > > * Content-types. Currently values are tagged to indicate they should be > rendered specially by the front-end. Is this the right way to do it? What > about tagged literals? > > * UI as a value. There's a lot that could be done with custom rendering of > values. Mathematica is particularly impressive in this regard, and it would > be interesting to think where this could go with clojure. I know Kovas > Boguta has thought about this a lot. > > * Clojurescript! I think this is a _really_ interesting one. I'd love to > see a pure-client-version that uses a clojurescript REPL server in a > web-worker or similar. I came to write Gorilla through thinking about this > angle originally, having previously messed around with javascript based > data analysis in the browser (see http://monkeycruncher.org - cute idea, > but no-one wants to use js to analyse their data!). In my opinion there's > some really important work to be done on opening up analysis - I'd love to > publish scientific papers not with a snapshot of my analysis, but with my > real, living, breathing analysis in them. And I love to do it on an open, > ubiquitous platform :-) > > Anyway, let me know what you think. Comments, issues and pull requests all > very, very welcome ;-) > > > Jony > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Clojure" group. > To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with > your first post. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Clojure" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
