Codebraid

Minimalist scientific workbook

July 14, 2023 — July 14, 2023

academe

computers are awful

faster pussycat

how do science

julia

plain text

premature optimization

provenance

python

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.