It would be great if people stopped using Matlab for new open source projects (in favor of e.g. Julia or Python/numpy). But nobody is expecting the majority of numerical code to be rewritten for the web anytime soon.
Still, if anyone wants to make their research results as accessible as possible, then publishing an Observable notebook is great, because it’s (a) just a hyperlink so trivial to access from any device without security concerns, need to purchase or even install and run specialized runtimes, etc., (b) very friendly for readers to inspect/modify/reuse, (c) supports rich interaction better than most alternative platforms.
I’m hoping that wasm someday soon becomes a reasonable target for optimized numerical programs written in Fortran, C, Rust, Julia, Halide, ...
Still, if anyone wants to make their research results as accessible as possible, then publishing an Observable notebook is great, because it’s (a) just a hyperlink so trivial to access from any device without security concerns, need to purchase or even install and run specialized runtimes, etc., (b) very friendly for readers to inspect/modify/reuse, (c) supports rich interaction better than most alternative platforms.
I’m hoping that wasm someday soon becomes a reasonable target for optimized numerical programs written in Fortran, C, Rust, Julia, Halide, ...