> I don't think any of the effort on either web app is wasted. For > example, I am currently reading through the codenode source code for > ideas right now. Very soon, we will release a BSD-licensed version > of the Sage notebook so that all the Codenode developers can do the > same! (They recently switched to BSD from GPL, so they can't read/use > our code.) I totally agree that each effort is extremely worthwhile in that both are taking different approaches, and have some different short term goals, but yet both are trying (in the big picture) to solve a similar general problem. This pushes us both to create a better end product, and we can help each other along the way by collaborating on sub-problems.
On the subject of collaborating on sub-problems, there is one that I hope we can attack more in the near future, and that is @interact. A couple months back I spent a couple of days thinking and coding some stuff up related to making a jQuery plugin for @interact functionality. I just spent a little more time cleaning up the code, and in particular making the README more clear, and I made it public here: http://github.com/clemesha/jquery-interact It does *not* do "lots of useful" things yet, but I feel it's a solid beginning and the proposed usage looks/feels really good. One of the best features will be support for the <canvas> html5 element based plotting, as well as pure javascript execution, and hence could be very useful to all sorts of different people/use cases. This might hopefully attract more focused development on it (ala Cython, etc) and everyone would benefit from that. (Feedback/opinions greatly appreciated. Maybe a new thread should be started if people do have feedback so we don't diverge this thread to badly... which I'm sorta doing now :-) > I think the best way to view the situation is like the situation with > "vim" and "emacs". Surely you would not consider it bad that both vim > and emacs are continually improved. I use both vim and emacs > regularly, and I'm really glad they are both available. > > Also, I believe that in any industry/software project/etc., without > some other project doing something at least similar, there will be a > tendency to not innovate so much. I think having both the codenode > and sagenb project be very healthy is the best situation to encourage > innovation. This sums up my feelings perfectly, thanks very much for posting this. -Alex I hope everybody reading this will be highly supportive > of both projects. > > -- William > > > -- > William Stein > Associate Professor of Mathematics > University of Washington > http://wstein.org > > > > -- Alex Clemesha clemesha.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
