While Livebook will mostly have an appeal for people already working with erlang/elixir, it does have a few features that are pretty nice. - it’s collaborative

While Livebook will mostly have an appeal for people already working with erlang/elixir, it does have a few features that are pretty nice. - it’s collaborative (think Google docs for code) when several people are working on the same instance of a livebook; - it’s easy to extend with so-called smart cells (which are essentially pieces of gui you can inject in your document https://news.livebook.dev/v0.6-automate-and-learn-with-smart-cells-mxJJe https://news.livebook.dev/v0.6-automate-and-learn-with-smart... ). Smart cells are available for various tasks (db connection/ interaction, data frame exploration, ML tasks, maps), and building your own is relatively easy; - you can turn a notebook into a web app ( https://news.livebook.dev/deploy-notebooks-as-apps-quality-of-life-upgrades---launch-week-1---day-1-2OTEWI https://news.livebook.dev/deploy-notebooks-as-apps-quality-o... ) - you can run your code an a remote elixir node by attaching to it (although this requires some knowledge of distributed elixir/erlang )