D kernel for Jupyter notebook

[Nicholas Wilson]

On Sunday, 19 August 2018 at 20:33:45 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
> Proof of concept works, but it requires some further 
> development to be useful to do work in.
>
> https://github.com/kaleidicassociates/jupyterd
>
> It uses D repl currently - this was written for a console 
> interface and probably you will encounter difficulties running 
> it in a notebook environment.  I guess one would like to treat 
> all functions defined in a single notebook as part of the same 
> session and to execute immediate statements as part of a main 
> specific to that cell.
>
> The kernel is a bit flakey - takes time to come on line and you 
> might need to reconnect to it sometimes.
>
> To Do:
>
> 1.    Add HTML and markdown table output to display arrays of 
> structs or of dicts in a useful manner
> 2.    Integrate with mir and other numeric libraries
> 3.    Integrate with charting
> 4.    Consider adding to Dlang tour and run.dlang.io when stable
> 5.    Integrate with dpp
> 6.    Integrate with dub
>
>
> 1 and 3 should be quite simple.  One wouldn't want to write a 
> large program in Jupyter, but it's helpful for exploratory data 
> analysis and programming where the code that does the work is 
> already in D.

Note that the D repl will only work on platforms where drepl 
works i.e. platform with shared library support. It will _build_ 
on OSX due to 
https://github.com/kaleidicassociates/jupyterd/blob/master/source/jupyterd/kernel.d#L393 but it won't work.