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jupyter / atom-notebook

[Deprecated] Jupyter Notebook, but inside Atom.
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why did the development on this stop? #73

Open grg2rsr opened 6 years ago

grg2rsr commented 6 years ago

In the Readme it says

This project does not have any active maintainers. We recommend that you use nteract, a native notebook application

What is the reason for this? I very much like the idea of jupyter notebooks, but the lack of having a fully capable text editor has always annoyed me too much to use it. Now it seems that nteract is recommended, however nteract does not seem to differ too much from a browser based jupyter notebook except it's a desktop application.

There are two possibilities: a) I am not getting something here, and there are ways to use jupyter notebooks in text editors that I haven't found out yet. b) people are generally not so much depending on the tools and editing comfort of proper editors as I am.

I think a) is unlikely, I have googled around quite a bit, but I wish I would be wrong and somebody points me to an answer. I think b) is also unlikely, if I look at the deep complexity of emacs for example, people really seem to love their editors. Now what is happening in the field of python data analysis? Do people not care about editors there? Also unlikely.

I want to make the point, that a package promising the functionality as I can read it in this Readme (I have never used it, I started using atom at a point where it was already deprecated) can not be replaced by nteract, surely not by the current version of it. If nteracts plan is to grow to a full fledged text editor, wouldn't it be easier to try to implement notebook support into an existing one with a huge userbase? So what are the reasons for this development to stop, and start something (in my eyes) very different? thanks for clarifications

matanox commented 6 years ago

Did you consider that the developers simply may have other things to invest their time and talent at? :-)

grg2rsr commented 6 years ago

developer time is of course a precious resource. But the way how I tried to frame my question was not "but why did you guys stop?", I rather wanted to say "I must not be getting something here" - because, devs don't seem to have stopped, but moved to something else. So time and talent is still spent, but one something very different, hence the "I must not be getting something here" component of my comment.

matanox commented 6 years ago

so do you mean they've moved to some other project in the same area, and you wonder why the new project is necessary rather than this one, for the same use case?