muboard VS JSage

Show HN: Mathematics Chalkboard with LaTeX and Markdown Support\ (15 comments)

I hope you like it. If you find any issues, please create a new issue or just tell me here. It will help to make the tool better.

Muboard: Mathematics Chalkboard with LaTeX and Markdown Support\ (9 comments)

Thanks! I am aware of LyX and I did try it earlier but I did not quite like its ergonomics. I guess I prefer non-WYSIWYG tools more than the WYSIWYG ones. Another thing I wanted from my tool is that after a book club meeting is over, I should be able to share the same board in a distributable format (a simple HTML that self-renders it as Muboard), so that the participants can later refer to the same snippets that we went through during the meeting.

I have explained some of the reasons behind writing this tool here: https://github.com/susam/muboard#why (see section "Why?").

Here are a few examples of what the distributable board files look like: https://antmeet.github.io/boards/ .

Yes, porting https://SageMath.org to the browser is part of the plan, and this is a key foundation for that. I ported some of the components of Sage (e.g., https://libntl.org/) already as part of https://github.com/sagemathinc/jsage, and I don't see any fundamental obstruction to porting all of Sage, except time. It would be great if once CoWasm is more stable, I can get some help porting some components to WASM.

And here is the more lightweight and flexible (in some ways) one from Wasmer, before they completely rewrote it in Rust:

https://github.com/sagemathinc/JSage/tree/main/packages/wasi

It took me some work to track down the old version, fix some bugs in it, and keep it going. But I personally find the old version very useful too, and if you can see from the comments that it has an interesting history.

Here's a third called "JPython", which I've been writing lately for fun:

https://github.com/sagemathinc/JSage/tree/main/packages/jpyt...