2021-12-02 Minutes

Meeting 2: (12/2/2021)

Minutes by Will Gajate

Attendance: Bob T., Art A., Henry R., Michal Wallace(J early show), Will G.

• Reconstruct landing page to provide newcomers with a guided path (runway) for finding the right place to start learning the language.
• Define group/subject general interest areas (backbone to hang pages on) : Necomer's area| Essays | ... , this structure will give us a target for organizing/categorizing pages.

  * General student of array languages
  * Data Scientist
  * Quantitative developer
  * Web developer
  * Database developer
  * Installing J (detailed instructions per platform)
  

• Newcomer pages could have a different color background
• For outdated pages, a banner could alert page viewers that the content is outdated (community suggestion)

Feature Ideas:

• Implementing J labs with Jupyter Notebooks (needs J to work with Jupyter Notebook kernel)
• Executable J code in the browser, to make interactive tutorials on the wiki.
• Syntatic highlighting for J code snippets on wiki (need to install plug-in for media wiki)
• Special J font type -> @ sign would look smaller (more like the mathematical symbol)
• Web Assembly (wasm) compilation of J engine - for running J in the browser (client-side) safely and cheaply. Server does not pay compute costs since J code executed on client side.
• J plugin for Visual Studio Code
• J 6.02 Reference Card to be updated to J 9.++ by RickDevelopment of the J Wiki W.3