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Bruce Westbury

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Mar 16, 2021, 1:27:09 PM3/16/21

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I liked the idea of being able to write a custom javascript interface to Sage and came across SageMathCell. I couldn't see how this worked and looked inside embedded_sagecell.js and got a shock. It is over 30K lines of code with an unreadable block of over 100 lines in the middle. At one point it includes:

Does this mean it has not been updated since 2012?

Has the javascript been generated by Dojo?

Another problem is that the print example fails because it uses Python 2.

This all gives the impression that this code is not being maintained.

This is an active group so clearly people are using this. Does anyone know how it works?

William Stein

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Mar 16, 2021, 1:42:25 PM3/16/21

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On Tue, Mar 16, 2021 at 10:27 AM Bruce Westbury <brucew...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I liked the idea of being able to write a custom javascript interface to Sage and came across SageMathCell. I couldn't see how this worked and looked inside embedded_sagecell.js and got a shock. It is over 30K lines of code with an unreadable block of over 100 lines in the middle.

It sounds like you're looking at **autogenerated code**. The actual
source code of SageMathCell is here:
https://github.com/sagemath/sagecell

I'm not sure what your web development background is, but I'll just
mention that many modern web applications combine a wide range of
libraries into a single file as part of the build/compilation
process...

> At one point it includes:
>
> Copyright (c) 2010-2012, The Dojo Foundation All Rights Reserved.
>
> Does this mean it has not been updated since 2012?
> Has the javascript been generated by Dojo?
>
> Another problem is that the print example fails because it uses Python 2.
> This all gives the impression that this code is not being maintained.
>
> This is an active group so clearly people are using this. Does anyone know how it works?
>

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