Wow. I never thought this day would come but it looks like a standalone, embeddable, kernel is actually showing up... It's shown up in multiple live streams now. Whether it will be within my price range (~$0) is whole different question, though.
@b3m2a1You're referring to the Stephen_Wolfram's Twitch video RSS: Live CEOing (208): Standalone Applications in #WolfLang? I heard the phrase freeWolframEngine too. From the state of discussions I suppose that they still need a couple of months for a regular release of V12. Let's see whether a deployable WolframScript/WolframEngine is part of that schedule.
@Szabolcs if I made a convenient documentation generator from Markdown is this something that would interest you? I'm currently working an an automatic generator of a notebook that I can feed into my Notebook->Markdown->HTML pipeline. I could easily then add some palettes and things and support for linking between pages, throw in some nice bootstrap-based themes, etc. and make a simple web documentation system.
The source notebooks could integrate with the documentation center as I'd add all the relevant metadata, but the stylesheet would be simple and clean (but attractive), the layout would never change capriciously, and we could get web integration without having to go through Workbench.
I'm doing this because Wolfram changed the docs format for 12.0 and I don't want to change a bunch of code just to make everything play nice with these changes.
@ChrisK the changes are relatively minor it seems (going off the live stream and a note I got from someone that my docs don't looks right anymore) but I just don't want to deal with them.
But I'm hoping to have something up and running pretty soon. Mostly I just need to get the basic notebook editing structure in place and then I can add some palettes for making things a bit nicer.
One very nice thing is that as everything will be Markdown in the end it'll be usable pretty much anywhere.
@ChrisK Yeah it's all gonna be a simple stylesheet so as long as the stylesheet is installed that'll be fine. I have a toolchain already for paclet stuff so I can just integrate things into that.