>I'm willing to try Jupiter, just finally have a grasp of compiling and running AA's programs from my terminal, and was able to generate the CSV Grid in Visual Studio. I'm reluctant to jump ship to a new platform, unless it really is much better.
The Jupyter platform isn't so important, more of using Julia as the language.
If you're happy with java (and AA is an expert), then go with that. If you want to dabble in Julia, let me know.
Jupyter notebooks are just a tool / environment for the language. Can also run Python within them as well.
Similarly, you can use the REPL (regular command interface), and do this via other Dev tools as well (Atom, Sublime Text, etc.).
The Binary manipulations are all handled as well, either in the base language, or with packages.
This bred is young, and not getting a lot of use (kek), so if you want to work here, we could do that.