Really nice writeup! I miss the ability to use Observable in a self-contained html file without hosting, that was pretty cool and it was nice to be able to just email people a file they could manipulate

I really do deeply appreciate all the work you and the whole team do, and I acknowledge that I will just have to get more comfortable with change. This post was very helpful in working around some of the (perceived) shortcomings of Positron projects.

This is all beta software and obviously no one is being forced to use Positron yet. Change is always hard but in this case it feels particularly hard when the communication so far hasn't seemed to address the foundational changes that are taking place in recommended or supported workflows.

For example, to come from RStudio and be told the only way to get anywhere close to feature parity with rmd or quarto is to use ipynb files is really jarring and still doesn't bring feature parity.

I know you advocated for project based workflows, and not specifically .rproj files, but between this, the lack of inline support for quarto and rmd files, it feels like a much larger shift is taking place than has maybe been acknowledged.

Thanks for this write up, it really does help. I have really wanted to love Positron but instead it's felt like the processes and "best practices" that the rstudio team advocated for have very quickly shifted or been put aside without much communication.

I'm no hrbrmstr, but sadly I don't believe it's possible