Codebraid
Minimalist scientific workbook
July 14, 2023 — July 14, 2023
academe
computers are awful
faster pussycat
how do science
information provenance
julia
plain text
premature optimization
python
R
UI
workflow
A scientific workbook based on jupyter kernels and pandoc. Looks much simpler, and therefore potentially less horrible, than Jupyter.
Perhaps a close cousin to quarto.
Comparison with Jupyter, knitr, and Pweave from the project website:
| Codebraid | Jupyter Notebook | knitr | Pweave | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| multiple programming languages per document | ✔ | ✔* | ✔† | ✔* |
| multiple independent sessions per language | ✔ | |||
| inline code execution within paragraphs | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| no out-of-order code execution | ✔ | ✔‡ | ✔ | |
| no markdown preprocessor or custom syntax | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| minimal diffs for easy version control | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| insert code output anywhere in a document | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| can divide code into incomplete snippets | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| support for literate programming | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| compatible with any text editor | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
1 References
Poore. 2019. “Codebraid: Live Code in Pandoc Markdown.” Proceedings of the 18th Python in Science Conference.