![]() That is mainly because I’m a software developer (engineer). In fact, I also rarely use any notebooks, including R Markdown notebooks. I guess it was a war between notebooks and editors/IDEs.īefore I start this post, I want to mention that I know little about Python (I have written one short Python script in total in my life), and I don’t use Jupyter myself. “A war between whom and whom?” You may ask. Philip Guo declared that the summer 2018 ended with “the first great notebook war”. ![]() For example, Hilary Parker doesn’t like notebooks, either. Joel’s talk triggered a lot of discussions on Twitter (come on, people, let’s get off Twitter whenever there is something worth a deep discussion). I wish there were more criticism to popular tools in the R world, and personally I’d welcome criticism and complaints about my own work. I agree with Joel that criticizing a popular tool is not “an unhelpful way to spend time” (see slide #4). I’d applaud the open-mindedness of the conference committee to invite Joel to give such a talk to (presumably so many) notebook lovers. Last week I learned about an interesting JupyterCon talk given by Joel Grus titled “ I Don’t Like Notebooks”. Reasons why you don’t like R Markdown (notebooks)?.What if I’m standing at the intersection of software engineering and data analysis?.Literate programming, for real (for software development).xaringan::inf_mr(), another (lesser-known/unpopular) solution to the out-of-order execution problem.Should we rename “Notebook” to “Scratch Pad”?.Notebooks make it hard to copy and paste into Slack/Github issues Notebooks hinder reproducible + extensible science Jupyter’s autocomplete, linting, and way of looking up the help are awkward Notebooks discourage modularity and testing What do notebooks and spreadsheets have in common?.The two cultures: the R vs Python culture, or data analysis vs software engineering culture.Here are some of my thoughts on notebooks, IDE, and R Markdown. The First Notebook War So Joel Grus doesn't like Jupyter notebooks. The First Notebook War - So Joel Grus doesn't like Jupyter notebooks.
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