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Last time I've tried Jupyter, about a year or two ago, the user experience wasn't even close to that of Mathematica. I guess I'll give it another chance, but ca

Last time I've tried Jupyter, about a year or two ago, the user experience wasn't even close to that of Mathematica. I guess I'll give it another chance, but can you tell me in what way Mathematicas notebook interface is outclassed, in your opinion? The only major beef I have with Mathematica are its default stylesheets. They suck, every single one of them. There is no good distinction between input and output fields. Whenever I install Mathematica, the first thing I do is to make the "Natural Color" stylesheet [1] the default but unfortunately, it isn't even present in the options anymore since a few versions ago. [1] https://imgur.com/a/83ZyF https://imgur.com/a/83ZyF

qubex 9y ago
Yours is a good question, and I can't really provide a good answer. Firstly, I suppose I wish for something more akin to an IDE with a proper list of variables, functions, classes, & cetera; tabs; and as the screenshots of this JupyterLab beta release show, a capability for displaying different data types in different self-contained windows that are not in-lines to the notebook document. I probably expressed myself very poorly.
ChrisRackauckas 9y ago
I agree here. Being able to write code in the mathematical rendering is such a beautiful feature of Mathematica that Jupyter is missing. I am not sure how it's outclassed as a notebook because of this. As an IDE? Sure, Mathematica's notebook isn't a good IDE at all. But as a notebook for writing mathematical statements, it's fantastic. It's the one thing I need in order to go to an only Julia workflow.
- wenc 9y ago
  > Being able to write code in the mathematical rendering I wonder, what do you mean by this? You mean it's possible to write code in the Out[] cells in Mathematica? (is that possible?) Or do you mean writing math in the notebook?
- RunningToMars 9y ago
  People often overlook the eclipse IDE for Mathematica... https://www.wolfram.com/workbench/ https://www.wolfram.com/workbench/

qubex 9y ago

Yours is a good question, and I can't really provide a good answer. Firstly, I suppose I wish for something more akin to an IDE with a proper list of variables, functions, classes, & cetera; tabs; and as the screenshots of this JupyterLab beta release show, a capability for displaying different data types in different self-contained windows that are not in-lines to the notebook document. I probably expressed myself very poorly.

ChrisRackauckas 9y ago

I agree here. Being able to write code in the mathematical rendering is such a beautiful feature of Mathematica that Jupyter is missing. I am not sure how it's outclassed as a notebook because of this. As an IDE? Sure, Mathematica's notebook isn't a good IDE at all. But as a notebook for writing mathematical statements, it's fantastic. It's the one thing I need in order to go to an only Julia workflow.

wenc 9y ago
> Being able to write code in the mathematical rendering I wonder, what do you mean by this? You mean it's possible to write code in the Out[] cells in Mathematica? (is that possible?) Or do you mean writing math in the notebook?
RunningToMars 9y ago
People often overlook the eclipse IDE for Mathematica... https://www.wolfram.com/workbench/ https://www.wolfram.com/workbench/