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Show HN: Scripton – Python IDE with Built-In Realtime Visualizations by nightcraft

Show HN: Scripton – Python IDE with Built-In Realtime Visualizations by nightcraft

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  • Post Author
    giancarlostoro
    Posted February 18, 2025 at 3:06 pm

    This looks beautiful, I don't do data viz in Python so I don't have a use for this. I do mostly web dev in Python, but wow it looks amazing!

    I'm really surprised (and almost not) to hear the UI is in TypeScript, did you use a specific web framework like React by chance? The UI looks really nice to me.

  • Post Author
    Woshiwuja
    Posted February 18, 2025 at 3:08 pm

    [dead]

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    KeplerBoy
    Posted February 18, 2025 at 3:12 pm

    Can it visualize PyTorch Tensors without an additional memory copy? I.e. mapping it directly to a texture which is then displayed?

    I know this is not much of a concern on a system with unified memory (all recent apple computers).

  • Post Author
    andsoitis
    Posted February 18, 2025 at 3:15 pm

    Do you plan on selling copies (vs only subscription)?

  • Post Author
    ayhanfuat
    Posted February 18, 2025 at 3:17 pm

    How does Observable Plot work here? Do you translate the code to JavaScript?

  • Post Author
    paddy_m
    Posted February 18, 2025 at 3:20 pm

    What are your plans for a data table UI?

    Shameless plug: I created the open source Buckaroo table for jupyter (embeddable in other contexts) with histograms, summary stats, search… I love talking tables if you want to get in touch.

  • Post Author
    matt1285
    Posted February 18, 2025 at 3:22 pm

    more like SubScripton

  • Post Author
    pzo
    Posted February 18, 2025 at 3:23 pm

    Looks beautiful so congratulation for the launch.

    Not sure if today this is enough though without any kind of AI chat assistant. Trae [0] is based on VSCode and Jetbrains Fleet are good looking as well. Visualization is definitely a big plus but there is also alternative like using rerun [1] and dearpygui [2] or some VSCode plugins (Python Image Preview, AREPL for Python)- might be hard to compete with those free alternatives on a subscription model IMHO but good luck!

    [0] https://trae.ai/

    [1] https://www.rerun.io/

    [2] https://github.com/hoffstadt/DearPyGui

  • Post Author
    erichocean
    Posted February 18, 2025 at 3:34 pm

    If you want this in Clojure, check out Clerk. [0]

    As a bonus, you can continue to use whatever IDE you already use.

    [0] https://github.com/nextjournal/clerk

  • Post Author
    roger_
    Posted February 18, 2025 at 3:36 pm

    This looks incredible, but I’m not a fan of the subscription pricing.

    How about a hobbyist rate at least?

  • Post Author
    kaboomshebang
    Posted February 18, 2025 at 3:42 pm

    What happens when I would stop my subscription? The scripton lib is open source and the lyra orion plot functions can output image files without refactoring? (Or do I have to reactivate my subscription?) (Congrats on your product launch btw :)

  • Post Author
    whalesalad
    Posted February 18, 2025 at 3:43 pm

    Does anyone know the name of the typeface/font used in the example images?

  • Post Author
    ckastner
    Posted February 18, 2025 at 3:46 pm

    In a similar vein: https://www.spyder-ide.org/ (MIT-licensed)

  • Post Author
    MattDaEskimo
    Posted February 18, 2025 at 3:46 pm

    I would've enjoyed trying this out but the subscription fee is an immediate turn off.

    My biggest concern with this project is expertise and potential burn-out. There's a lot of writing from scratch that really begs to go through the gauntlet of open source.

  • Post Author
    zipy124
    Posted February 18, 2025 at 3:51 pm

    Fantastic product and props to the creator on it! Though Mac only and a subscription price of this magnitude for an IDE is a hard sell, given the availability of other options, which aren't neccesarily $20 a month worse. Never the less I'll keep my eye on this project.

  • Post Author
    garyfirestorm
    Posted February 18, 2025 at 3:53 pm

    why not go down vscode extension path?

  • Post Author
    the__alchemist
    Posted February 18, 2025 at 4:02 pm

    The price doesn't make sense in conjunction with PyCharm's pricing IMO.

  • Post Author
    CyberDildonics
    Posted February 18, 2025 at 4:11 pm

    Congratulations on your advertisement. I personally won't be paying to have free and open source software rented back to me as a monthly subscription, but I wish you the best of luck.

  • Post Author
    Maelcum
    Posted February 18, 2025 at 4:18 pm

    As far as I'm concerned, the subscription model is an instant showstopper, just like web-based UIs.

  • Post Author
    screye
    Posted February 18, 2025 at 4:20 pm

    OP, you're selling your tool to the wrong people. HN is not the crowd. This is for core-engineers who want to get value out of coding.

    Find people who pay the $1000/yr to use 1 tool in Matlab, and start pulling them away.

  • Post Author
    alsodumb
    Posted February 18, 2025 at 4:28 pm

    I am a robotics engineer/scientist and I do shit ton of visualization of all kind of high-fidelity/high-rate data, often in a streaming setting – time series at a few thousand Hz, RGB/depth images from multiple cameras, debugging my models, etc.

    For a long time, I had my own observability suite – a messy library of python scripts that I use for visualizing data. I replaced all of them with rerun (https://rerun.io/) and if you are someone who think Scipton is exciting, you should def try rerun too!

    I use cursor/vscode for my development and add a line or two to my usual workflows in python, and rerun pops up in it's own window. It's a simple pip installable library, and just works. It's open source, and the founders run a very active forum too.

    Edit: One slightly related tid-bit that might be interesting to HN folks. rerun isn't that old, and is in active development, with some breaking changes and new features that come up every month. And it means that LLM are pretty bad at rerun code gen, beyond the simple boilerplate. Recently, it kind of made my life hell as all of my interns refuse to use docs and try using LLMs for rerun code generation and come to me with a messy code spagetti. It's both sad and hilarious. To make my life easier, I asked rerun folks to create machine readable docs and they didn't really do it. So I just scrape their docs and ask my interns to paste the docs in their prompt before they query LLMs and it works like a charm now.

  • Post Author
    helboi4
    Posted February 18, 2025 at 4:37 pm

    This looks really really cool but I do hate everything being subscriptions. Everyone trying to be a digital landlord out here. Just sell me something.

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