I can't recall exactly right now (incidentally I started recording decisions like this to be able to answer questions like this - mainly for myself - but only recently).
To refresh my memory I just started it and tried using it with a julia kernel on a remote jupyter. To start, it wouldn't connect to https endpoint. Maybe because it's signed by a private CA? idk, but the mac trusts it for eg the browser and curl. Well anyway, let's forward the http port and try connecting to localhost.
Great, that works, and I'm offered some uuid as a "choice of kernel to connect to". I don't recall having one running before I connected, so it probably was started for me. How do I name it? Ah, there's `jupyter-server-kernel-list-name-kernel`, and now I'm recalling that whatever you name it as, will disappear if you quit emacs. Let's try.
Meanwhile, I import PlotlyJS and try to create a plot. I get complaints about WebIO (julia package that facilitates interaction with browser) like I do in jupyter (the package is old and doesn't work with current jupyter), except in the browser only the back communication (browser->kernel) is broken, for interactivity. Showing plots works. Anyway, PlotlyJS displays nothing. `Plots`, which renders to a png, somehow produces the axes but not data. Eventually I get PlotlyJS to display an image using explicit image mime types.
Still no interactivity - I would need node for that, to compile widget support for whatever reason - but it does display. I should retest widget support. Sending code to repl works, although at this point I'm used to seeing an overlay over variables that get set.
Ok. Close emacs, restart, go to session list (`jupyter-server-list-kernels`). Name has been cleared. I can reassociate the buffer to the kernel, but, if I have two, open kernels, how do I tell which buffers is associates with which kernel?
Overall it mostly works although there's room for polish. However, interactivity or any kind of bidirectional communication remains somewhat difficult.
To refresh my memory I just started it and tried using it with a julia kernel on a remote jupyter. To start, it wouldn't connect to https endpoint. Maybe because it's signed by a private CA? idk, but the mac trusts it for eg the browser and curl. Well anyway, let's forward the http port and try connecting to localhost.
Great, that works, and I'm offered some uuid as a "choice of kernel to connect to". I don't recall having one running before I connected, so it probably was started for me. How do I name it? Ah, there's `jupyter-server-kernel-list-name-kernel`, and now I'm recalling that whatever you name it as, will disappear if you quit emacs. Let's try.
Meanwhile, I import PlotlyJS and try to create a plot. I get complaints about WebIO (julia package that facilitates interaction with browser) like I do in jupyter (the package is old and doesn't work with current jupyter), except in the browser only the back communication (browser->kernel) is broken, for interactivity. Showing plots works. Anyway, PlotlyJS displays nothing. `Plots`, which renders to a png, somehow produces the axes but not data. Eventually I get PlotlyJS to display an image using explicit image mime types.
Still no interactivity - I would need node for that, to compile widget support for whatever reason - but it does display. I should retest widget support. Sending code to repl works, although at this point I'm used to seeing an overlay over variables that get set.
Ok. Close emacs, restart, go to session list (`jupyter-server-list-kernels`). Name has been cleared. I can reassociate the buffer to the kernel, but, if I have two, open kernels, how do I tell which buffers is associates with which kernel?
Overall it mostly works although there's room for polish. However, interactivity or any kind of bidirectional communication remains somewhat difficult.