Readit Newsnix run --impure 'git+https://codeberg.org/ingenieroariel/arcan?ref=nix-flake-buil...'
An article called "A Spreadsheet and a Debugger walk into a Shell" [0] by Bjorn (letoram) is a good showcase of an alternative to cells in a Jupyter notebook (Excel like cells!). Another alternative a bit more similar to Jupyter that also runs on Arcan is Pipeworld.
[0] https://arcan-fe.com/2024/09/16/a-spreadsheet-and-a-debugger... [1] https://arcan-fe.com/2021/04/12/introducing-pipeworld/
PS: I hang out at Arcan's Discord Server, you are welcome to join https://discord.com/invite/sdNzrgXMn7
Chris Randall is pretty awesome too: https://www.instagram.com/chris.randall.art/
"Arcan is a powerful development framework for creating virtually anything between user interfaces for specialised embedded applications all the way to full-blown standalone desktop environments. Boot splash screen? no problem. Custom Interface for your Home Automation Project? sure thing. Stream media processing? Of course."
Still dont really understand what this is?
Since it is a complete toolkit, you can have detachable applications where you send both code and state to a server and retrieve it from another device (like Apple's continuity).
In the end it is just a bunch of lua scripts talking to other components via /dev/shm and to other computers using a new protocol called a12://
It’s possible to build a Linux box that does the same but you’ll be spending a lot more to get there. With Apple, a $500 Mac Mini has memory bandwidth that you just can’t get anywhere else for the price.
For our code assistant use cases the local inference on Macs will tend to favor workflows where there is a lot of generation and little reading and this is the opposite of how many of use use Claude Code.
Source: I started getting Mac Studios with max ram as soon as the first llama model was released.