There are a number of interesting topics here. Like others, I would be very keen to share my org-based projects with non-Emacs users. I also only have very limited time & skills to contribute. There is an existing extension for org-mode on vscode here: https://github.com/vscode-org-mode/vscode-org-mode. That might be the best place to help out. One piece of low-hanging fruit would be simply to add an HTML renderer to that plugin (https://github.com/orgapp/orgajs is the obvious choice). A full-on literate programming engine seems like a very tough thing to engineer, but perhaps it's possible to imagine a new architecture in which there are, as you suggest, various code interpretation engines. It's an exciting idea; I wonder if it's possible to explore the possibilities in a more concrete and structured way?

On Sun, May 24, 2020 at 4:20 PM rey-coyrehourcq <sebastien.rey-coyrehourcq@univ-rouen.fr> wrote:

Hi,

Really cool discussion here.

My two cents, Jupyter & Kernel on various langage, which have a very
large community, could be an interesting backend for org-babel on
VSCode or anyeditoryouwantusehere.

Lot of things start to appear to collaborate online around
online/scientific cnotebook/literate programing this last year, and that continue, for example i discover recently :
Stencila : https://github.com/stencila=

org-babel / org-mode outside of emacs has a great potential to lead an
alternative to other markdown (RStudio / Jupyter) solution.

Best regards

Le dimanche 24 mai 2020 à 06:06 -0700, Jack Kamm a écrit :
> It would be very good indeed for org-babel if it could be ported to
> other editors. One of the biggest drawbacks of org-babel notebooks is
> that I can't collaborate with my colleagues on them, since I can't
> expect them to use Emacs.
>
> Aside from VSCode, I think RStudio would be an excellent target for a
> few reasons:
>
> - Literate programming is already popular among R users (see also:
> knitr, sweave, Rmarkdown)
> - There is a strong ob-R community here
> - There are some prominent Emacs users among the Rstudio developers
> (e.g. Lionel Henry, who I think is both an Rstudio and ESS
> developer)
>
> However, this would be a massive undertaking, and ultimately would
> need
> a volunteer to step up to the plate. I don't have any bandwidth to do
> this in the foreseeable future but dream of working on it one day.
> The
> biggest downside -- it would require spending considerable time
> outside
> Emacs!
>
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