News, tips, and commentary about all things Positron
Welcome to the first Positron newsletter! This month: AI-powered notebook suggestions, Agent Skills, Azure Foundry support, R debugging upgrades, and more.
Academic institutions can now offer Positron directly within their JupyterHub environments with a free license.
We tested four open-source Python type checkers to find the best default for Positron. Here’s how Pyrefly, ty, Basedpyright, and Zuban compare on features, correctness, performance, and development velocity.
Positron now includes a native Jupyter Notebook Editor in alpha, built from the ground up for data science workflows. Here’s what is in alpha, why we build a new Notebook editor and what’s coming next.
R-Ladies Abuja has posted a recording of a recent talk on Positron, and you can find it here!
