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Forscape – A Language and Editor for Scientific Computation

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105 points faresahmed | 7 comments | 15 Oct 24 10:14 UTC | HN request time: 0.88s | source | bottom
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WillAdams ◴[15 Oct 24 19:13 UTC] No.41852071[source]▶
Why this rather than LyX, Texmacs, Jupyter Notebook, LaTeX (and a suitable editor), or Typst (and a suitable editor)?
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1. Onavo ◴[15 Oct 24 19:26 UTC] No.41852192[source]▶
If you asking this, you are the wrong audience. All academic journals accept submissions in Microsoft Word, this is a similar tool targeted at the WYSIWYG crowd.
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2. zokier ◴[15 Oct 24 19:36 UTC] No.41852290[source]▶
you both are missing the main point here, Forscape is not for writing documents, but for writing executable code.
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3. ◴[15 Oct 24 21:14 UTC] No.41853203[source]▶
4. wdkrnls ◴[15 Oct 24 22:20 UTC] No.41853712[source]▶
TeXmacs can execute code too. Honestly, if it had 1/10 the community of Emacs, I would be using it for everything from running my window manager to driving my statistical simulations. It's already what Stallman keeps asking Emacs to become.
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5. Onavo ◴[16 Oct 24 02:20 UTC] No.41855013[source]▶
Good point
6. kayvulpe ◴[16 Oct 24 14:06 UTC] No.41859176{3}[source]▶
TeXmacs and mathacademy are the reasons I've successfully rebooted my mathematical education after so long. Both are great products.
7. cryptonector ◴[16 Oct 24 14:40 UTC] No.41859599[source]▶
LyX is WYSIWYM.