Pluto.jl

I don't like Jupyter notebooks either. Recently tried Pluto notebooks and they're way better. Pluto is reactive, you can change a value of a variable in a cell, for example, and the change will propagate to all cells that depend on that value. In the end you can save the code and run it normally outside of a notebook. For now these are Julia based, but Julia's a pretty nice alternative for data science at this point - much faster then Python, higher level (more python like) than C++. https://github.com/fonsp/Pluto.jl

This is one of the selling points of Pluto.jl for Julia... less hidden state for interactive coding. https://github.com/fonsp/Pluto.jl

That's arguably the goal of [Pluto.jl](https://github.com/fonsp/Pluto.jl). It's a (Julia-specific) reactive notebook that automatically updates all affected cells and has no hidden state.

I think we're getting there, slowly. Quite a lot of people who don't in any way think of themselves as programmers now reach for python/R/julia for tasks that would once have been done in Excel. https://github.com/fonsp/Pluto.jl is a super-nice way of just starting, without too much setup cost. I think it will soon be self-contained as to what packages & versions are needed, too.

The game changer for ordinary technical programming folks from JuliaCon 2020 is the introduction of a new "reactive" notebook, Pluto.jl. "Reactive" means that -- unlike Jupyter -- it automatically updates the whole notebook, like a spreadsheet, when you change a value in any cell. I am a Julia and Jupyter newbie, but I picked up on it easily. Watch the following video made by Pluto's creators: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAF8DjrQSSk Go here for Pluto installation instructions: https://github.com/fonsp/Pluto.jl One thing that tripped me up, which is a generic Julia REPL issue: You enter the Julia package manager with "]" on the Julia> command line -- but how do you exit the package manager? Answer: Either Backspace or Ctrl-C.

https://github.com/fonsp/Pluto.jl A julia notebook using observablehq underneath. Reactive with a git compatible file format, looks very promising.