The IPython team are doing just that, and have renamed the IPython project "Jupyter", refactoring all the Python-specific code away into another repository and

The IPython team are doing just that, and have renamed the IPython project "Jupyter", refactoring all the Python-specific code away into another repository and allowing it to be ported to many other languages: currently over 40 of them. For obvious reasons, interpreted languages are much easier than mandatorily pre-compiled ones... http://jupyter.org http://jupyter.org