Introduction

We have achieved a lot in the past 10 months! If you are reading this then you probably know the highlights, but let me emphasize some things:

• We are proving that these techniques work, that an IDE can be so much more than a terminal + text editor with colors.
• The reactive notebook is an effective new medium to teach scientific programming.
• Feedback is overwhelmingly positive — people identify with the problems we are solving
• GitHub stats: 13 different people have made major contributors, we get 750 unique visitors per week, people with statistics enabled use Pluto 400 hours per day, and we are the #2 Julia package, and by far the fastest growing package.

This summer, I hope that the crisis is somewhat over, and I look forward to study at my university in person again. (I do a masters in applied mathematics in berlin.) Maintaining an open source project is emotionally taxing, and I am now trying to find which parts are actually worthwhile. And maybe you also have exciting plans for after the summer! This is why I propose the following:

<aside> ☝ For the next 6 months, we will only work on things that are truly exciting and important for accessible scientific computing.

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After those 6 months, we have something amazing to show to the scientific community. We can propose a real, working solution to common problems in scientific computing, and it's up to others to take the next steps:

• Cloud-based editing
• Compat with every package
• Config options
• "Deploying" "production" "data science"
• Python
• Vim mode

Inspiration

What technology is important?

Pluto's main inspiration is Bret Victor. I highly recommend watching his talks on youtube and reading his essays. His main research is programmer experience, but one article is about a different subject: What Can A Technologist Do About Climate Change? The sections TOOLS and MEDIA are very relevant for Pluto: