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Forscape – A Language and Editor for Scientific Computation

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105 points faresahmed | 2 comments | 15 Oct 24 10:14 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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etbebl ◴[16 Oct 24 04:29 UTC] No.41855609[source]▶
I may be missing the point, but I'm not sure there is really an audience for this...obviously nice math typography is important for publishing, but I doubt the set of people who are comfortable with advanced math but who see translating those operations into a traditional plain-text programming language as a barrier, but would be fine with a more math-like syntax, is very large.
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cryptonector ◴[16 Oct 24 14:35 UTC] No.41859520[source]▶
It's almost certainly not a large set of people. It's probably no larger than the set of professors and grad students who could use it. But it does seem very useful to those people. Incidentally, that's basically the same people that TeX was meant for originally.
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1. etbebl ◴[17 Oct 24 20:00 UTC] No.41873188[source]▶
My point is, wouldn't most of these people be fine with coding in Python/Matlab/Fortan/whatever?

Not that it isn't a cool idea!

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2. cryptonector ◴[18 Oct 24 03:55 UTC] No.41876210[source]▶
My kid's writing a bunch of math in Tex and using it with tools like Desmos and Wolfram Alpha, and Lyx and what not, and then when it comes time to build simulations based on that math... he has to transpile it by hand to a programming language. This is terribly sub-optimal. Sure, one can build a transpiler to do it, but it'd be even neater if the authoring tool was more integrated with TeX math.