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GNU Octave Meets JupyterLite: Compute Anywhere, Anytime

7 hours ago
  • #GNU Octave
  • #JupyterLite
  • #WebAssembly
  • Announcement of Xeus-Octave, a new JupyterLite kernel for GNU Octave.
  • GNU Octave is a free, open-source language compatible with Matlab scripts.
  • Challenges included WebAssembly cross-compilation and Fortran common symbols.
  • Solution involved patching LLVM to simulate common symbols as weak symbols.
  • Future plans include expanding Octave packages in conda-forge and emscripten-forge.
  • Acknowledgments to contributors of emscripten-forge, JupyterLite, Xeus, and Xeus-Octave.