Hi yoz, Stencila dev here. Thank for your interest. We're definitely still around!
Development of the frontend has indeed slowed down while we focus on more lower-level "backend" tools for research reproduciblity (e.g. https://github.com/stencila/dockter).
But were currently recruiting for a frontend designer and an engineer. So will be definitely be getting back to the interfaces soon!
Just a quick word of thanks for SheetJs from a Stencila dev! All the "mindnumbing testing and grinding work that honestly no one really wants to do" is obvious and much appreciated. Your efforts are so important for the ensuring interoperability but are often not recognised because they are "in the backend".
Thanks for the feedback. Comments and "track changes" are a commonly requested feature, important for collaboration, and certainly something we want to implement!
Hi, Stencila dev here, thanks for the feedback. There are several modular components that make up Stencila. The user interface modules are indeed built using Javascript, and Node.js is used in a number of places including the desktop and CLI apps and format converters. But for code execution, Stencila does not rely on Node, and users can use R, or Python or SQL.
> Reproducible research depends on reproducible execution, which depends on a reproducible environment, which depends on a reproducible set of libraries and frameworks.
Completely agree. We are trying to make it easy for people to use reproducible libraries and environments. To this end, we are developing Nix environments (a highly reproducible way of defining computing environments) which include Stencila "execution contexts" for R, Python etc with standard libraries included. These environments can be connected to the user interface. See https://github.com/stencila/images/ for more details.
Hi, Stencila dev here. In my opinion, Stencila is not ready for daily usage. But we are looking for beta testers who are willing to put up with bugs and crashes and help us shape the framework. We have converters, based on Pandoc, which are able to convert to both PDF and Latex - although they are also in preliminary development.
Development of the frontend has indeed slowed down while we focus on more lower-level "backend" tools for research reproduciblity (e.g. https://github.com/stencila/dockter).
But were currently recruiting for a frontend designer and an engineer. So will be definitely be getting back to the interfaces soon!