[HN Gopher] VSCode Adds Notebook Support
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       VSCode Adds Notebook Support
        
       Author : NmAmDa
       Score  : 39 points
       Date   : 2021-11-09 19:06 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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       | copperx wrote:
       | Does anybody here use Notebooks for non-data science things?
       | 
       | They look like a potential candidate for personal notes.
        
         | bitwize wrote:
         | I wrote a BASIC interpreter in literate org-mode Scheme once. I
         | find it helpful to organize my thoughts in notes, add code, and
         | turn that code into a working program via "tangling".
        
         | powersnail wrote:
         | Tried it, not particularly useful. Notebooks are code with
         | embedded markdown blocks; it shines when you want to run the
         | code in the notes. Otherwise, it has no more feature than a
         | regular plain text file, only more formatting boilerplates.
        
         | sporedro wrote:
         | Emacs org-mode allows taking notes and having code blocks you
         | can execute in the notes.
         | 
         | As someone who doesn't use emacs though, I personally would
         | love to see something like that with markdown/latex/notebooks.
         | I guess you can already sorta do it with Jupyter and things
         | like this.
         | 
         | Would be interesting for a more note-oriented tool to do this
         | though.
        
         | teruakohatu wrote:
         | Notebooks are for the most part markdown with embedded
         | executable code snippets.
         | 
         | Outside of datascience they can be used for exploring API's,
         | databases, prototyping libraries etc.
         | 
         | But for general note taking, markdown would be better.
        
       | siproprio wrote:
       | Have they removed github's spying capabilities yet? Last time I
       | looked at this, vscode was leaking private data that should not
       | be collected and processed inadvertently.
        
         | willmorrison wrote:
         | Could just use Code - OSS that removes telemetry.
        
           | jjeaff wrote:
           | Not a fan of that name. Makes it difficult to find
           | information about it.
           | 
           | Can you use all the regular vs code extensions with "Code"
           | that you can use with "VS Code"?
           | 
           | For the record, I'm also annoyed at the naming of Visual
           | Studio Code. Not to be confused with Visual Studio which is a
           | completely different IDE.
        
       | The_rationalist wrote:
       | See also: https://datalore.jetbrains.com/
        
       | seumars wrote:
       | If I had the time I would try out the notebook API to make a
       | simple node.js notebook. There's one alternative that works great
       | but is too bloated to my liking:
       | 
       | https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=donjayam...
        
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