Hi folks, I've worked with the kotlin-jupyter kern...

# datascience

[holgerbrandl]

Hi folks, I've worked with the kotlin-jupyter kernel last weekend and I was amazed by its stability and its wonderful module-definition feature. See yourself (just in case you like spaghetti and philosophy, but who doesn't...) https://github.com/holgerbrandl/kalasim/blob/master/simulations/notebooks/dining.ipynb . Or if you prefer a more gentle/verbose introduction see the corresponding manual page https://www.kalasim.org/examples/dining_philosophers/ FYI @Maria Khalusova data science with kotlin!

[altavir]

Indeed the platform looks really nice espcially the modularity and library loading. I think that @Ilya Muradyan's effort to add kernel library API togethere with including other ipynb platforms like VS-Code and Google colab could really turn tables on how notebook-based prototyping works.

[holgerbrandl]

To me, one stopper is still https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/PY-41575 because I can hardly imagine myself leaving the beloved ide for a much reduced browser experience. But it's clearly not kernel but rather an IDE issue.

[Ilya Muradyan]

Keep working on it. It's rather slow because of need of interaction with other teams, but I already have a working prototype with IDE-level code insight and cells execution on Kotlin kernel.

[holgerbrandl]

That's great news. I'm looking forward to it. I guess one hard part are also dependencies, which may differ from notebook to Notebook which contradicts the current module dependency model.

[Ilya Muradyan]

Kotlin scripting support has some issues with updating configurations (including dependecies, implcit receivers and so on), but I've made it work. Kernel sends back the resolved classpath as a part of response metadata, and then plugin triggers configuration update. After reindexing resolved jars become available to code insight

[Maria Khalusova]

@holgerbrandl Thanks! Do you mind if I share this article via @KotlinForData?

[holgerbrandl]

It would be an honour for me to be mentioned there @Maria Khalusova. I've just polished the example and pushed out a fresh release of kalasim to jcenter.