Way back when I wrote a blog post about why we're using Python in this book. I still think it's a good choice, with weighty advantages over Java or Rust or JavaScript or any number of other languages we might have chosen. But one thing I've always regretted a bit about choosing Python is that there was no way to incorporate the code into the book itself, since there isn't a great way to run Python in the browser. This became especially painful when Chris and I started working on
I don't know much about `repl.it`, so, maybe? Would that let us embed the code into the website? How about hook it up to custom visualizations? It would definitely be nice to have a service to make this kind of thing easier!
I don't know much about `repl.it`, so, maybe? Would that let us embed the code into the website? How about hook it up to custom visualizations? It would definitely be nice to have a service to make this kind of thing easier!
Very cool. Thanks for the links and I'll try to make time to check it out.