Livebook scraps

I played with the Livebook desktop app very briefly. First impression: very intriguing! A very deliberately designed application and not a Jupyter clone with an Elixir kernel.

• Happy surprise: on Mac, didn’t have to configure a dev environment with Elixir etc. Just download a .dmg and drag it to Applications. This is very user-friendly.
• Can use Livebook as a simple REPL for Elixir, but can also build up an app module by module, interactively.
• There’s a special cell at the top for project configuration, with a menu to guide you to libraries and fill in a Mix.install() statement. You don’t have to start by figuring out syntax.
• Reference material from Hexdocs pops up on hover – can be very useful but also annoying when it obscures what I’m trying to read.