PJUllrich
José just announced Dashbit‘s latest project: Livebook, a web application for writing interactive and collaborative code notebooks
It seems to be similar to Jupyter Notebooks, which works with Python Code. I‘m very impressed by this project since it constitutes another major leap towards allowing data science and machine learning to be conducted in Elixir. Jupyter Notebooks are an essential tool for this kind of work in Python. Livebook not only allows quick evaluation and sharing of Elixir scripts but also reduces the friction for data science and ML folks to jump on the Elixir train.
What do you think about Livebook?
Will you use it and if yes, for what?
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Sebb
So, if the code can run on the server, is there any security or is assumed that only trusted people use the notebook?
josevalim
Only trusted people use the notebook, after all the whole purpose of the notebook is code evaluation. :). There is both token and password authentication available.
Sebb
makes perfect sense for the application, was just curious if livebook brings a safe way to sandbox elixir.
bottlenecked
Just watched the presentation, looks beautiful, well done everyone!
Am I the only one who thought that a livebook woulld make for an exciting interactive sort of blogging platform? Like not only including code sections but allowing people to run them and inspect them in detail while reading the post.
Man, I should create a company selling livebook blogging themes
massimo
I’ve watched the whole thing and it’s beautifully executed, even though Jose says it’s a “first draft” it looks and works wonderfully.
Can’t wait to replace Python with this at work!
Great job!
Sebb
That would require that the Elixir code can’t do any harm to the blog-server.
Otherwise I come to your blog and install a dogecoin-miner.
bottlenecked
Yeah, you’re right of course- still, there might be a way to do this
crova
The same feeling came to me.
But as mentioned, one will have to secure the code execution.
Maybe let people run code that you wrote but not add anything of their own, so taking away the collaborative aspect of the equation.
thousandsofthem
Public read only version?
P.S. Regarding ML direction - sometimes you want to output images, charts etc, and current elixir ecosystem is pretty far away from this at this moment. Something for version 2.0 or so
ekobi
Lots to like here …
Nice work.
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kobi