I see this previous thread on Discourse: Suggestion for a new package: MinimalWorkingExamples.jl ; but it looks like maybe this never got off the ground? Coming from an R background, it’s extremely helpful (both as an asker & answerer) to have a package like https://reprex.tidyverse.org/ that prepar…

Pluto notebooks are a bit more involved, but work very well for this use case since they store the code, Project.toml, and Manifest.toml all in one file.

Is it a good idea to attach a Pluto notebook in a Discourse thread as a MWE? I’d have thought that wouldn’t be very friendly to people just trying to read & understand & reproduce a simple example. Do people use it that way in these forums? I do agree that a Pluto notebook is a great encapsulatio…

[image] Ken_Williams: Is it a good idea to attach a Pluto notebook in a Discourse thread as a MWE? I probably wouldn’t attach it, personally. I’d reproduce the code and other content directly in the post, but then potentially also upload the notebook file somewhere, for full reproducibility, …

IMO “full reproducibility” is not the actual goal. The goal is to have an example that can be run in several different environments. The differences between those environments are often the most important details to the conversation. I think having a very simple text-based reprex or MWE mechanism…

The problem with putting the onus on the person asking the question is that they are the ones who are least likely to know about something like MinimumWorkingExamples, Pluto notebooks or other potential tools for the MWE problem. I feel like this is a problem best solved on the end of the person ans…

The problem with putting the onus on the person asking the question is that they are the ones who are least likely to know about something like MinimumWorkingExamples , Pluto notebooks or other potential tools for the MWE problem. I mean, it’s easy enough to tell people. It’s usually not easy in…

[image] Ken_Williams: It’s usually not easy in my experience as an answerer to “just” open a notebook, paste code, and execute, because it’s usually not runnable out of the box Not sure if you mean a Jupyter notebook or Pluto notebook here. Jupyter notebook, I agree; almost nothing ever works…

Getting a “self-contained snippet of code” is itself non-trivial in practice, in my experience. People very often forget some piece of code that’s been part of their workflow for so long they basically take it for granted, or have other customizations that they forget to mention. So this makes it a …

[image] digital_carver: Getting a “self-contained snippet of code” is itself non-trivial in practice, in my experience. People very often forget some piece of code that’s been part of their workflow for so long they basically take it for granted, or have other customizations that they forget to …

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BjarkeHautop July 5, 2026, 12:48pm 11

Just adding to this thread that I made such a package:
[ANN] MinimalWorkingExamples.jl.

Here is a screenshot of how it looks (and the preview you see is copied to clipboard):

Topic		Replies	Views
[ANN] MinimalWorkingExamples.jl Package Announcements package	9	547	July 17, 2026
Suggestion for a new package: MinimalWorkingExamples.jl Package Announcements question , package	33	2315	June 18, 2026
Announcing Neptune.jl (now updated to multi-line cells!) Package Announcements notebooks	97	15068	January 25, 2022
Transforming a Pluto notebook into a Julia package Pluto	15	4396	April 26, 2023
Pluto 1.0 release! Package Announcements pluto , notebooks	6	10284	June 4, 2026

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