Pluto making scientific computing accessible and fun
04/05/23 • 60 min
In this episode, we explore Pluto. It is a Julia package, which enables people to ride Pluto notebooks. These notebooks are used by hundreds of thousands of people around the world to help explore the world around them. We talked to Fons to understand how he and some of his co-creators started this project, what motivated them to create yet another notebook framework and what are the key differences towards other notebooks, such as Jupiter, MATLAB Live editor, and maybe a little bit of Observable.
In addition to this, we will also explore how Pluto's are used in education with the Gerhard's experience as a teacher and a community manager, as the team collects a wide variety of use cases of where and how Pluto is used and how it helped people explore the world around. But not only do we understand and explore how it got going, how it's used today, we also take a sneak preview of what's to come in the future and understand how the community and the team make their decisions of what are the new features to be implemented and why. And it all revolves around some of their guiding principles that the team has put in place.
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In this episode, we explore Pluto. It is a Julia package, which enables people to ride Pluto notebooks. These notebooks are used by hundreds of thousands of people around the world to help explore the world around them. We talked to Fons to understand how he and some of his co-creators started this project, what motivated them to create yet another notebook framework and what are the key differences towards other notebooks, such as Jupiter, MATLAB Live editor, and maybe a little bit of Observable.
In addition to this, we will also explore how Pluto's are used in education with the Gerhard's experience as a teacher and a community manager, as the team collects a wide variety of use cases of where and how Pluto is used and how it helped people explore the world around. But not only do we understand and explore how it got going, how it's used today, we also take a sneak preview of what's to come in the future and understand how the community and the team make their decisions of what are the new features to be implemented and why. And it all revolves around some of their guiding principles that the team has put in place.
Useful links that are referred in the episode
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