[ESS] feature request: shell support
Sparapani, Rodney
rsparapa at mcw.edu
Tue Dec 17 22:28:06 CET 2013
On Tue, 2013-12-17 at 20:46 +0000, Stephen Eglen wrote:
>
> To throw another idea into the mix (for Christmas!). I met with
> Stefan
> Karpinski (a Julia developer) recently who suggested they had good
> experience working with 'ipython' as a communication protocol between
> Julia and the notebook viewer.
>
> As I understood 'ipython' is the name given to the interface that
> hooks
> up 'backends' like Python and Julia with 'frontends' like a notebook
> viewer (within a browser) or the Emacs frontend:
> http://tkf.github.io/emacs-ipython-notebook/
>
> JSON is used to communicate data. Is that efficient enough for our
> purpose in the future if/when we get round to rewriting ESS to remove
> the
> comint approach?
>
> Stephen
Hi Stephen:
If it is already implemented, then it is efficient enough. By that I
mean, we don't want to re-invent the wheel; we want to use off-the-shelf
technology.
Rodney
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