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I think notebooks are neat, and can be a useful tool, especially for learning. But until the last few days I had no clue people were trying to use them for actu

I think notebooks are neat, and can be a useful tool, especially for learning. But until the last few days I had no clue people were trying to use them for actual software development. To me this is a mistake, and adds a lot of tooling to what was and should be fairly simple process of opening up a text editor (of your choice, mine will be emacs). I am also fairly shocked there is a conference around this idea. I feel that this is a fad and distraction :/. It is a shame so much effort is being spent on this idea as a tool for building software. I think its focus should be on becoming a good aid in teaching people concepts. The last thing I want required to write software is a web browser.

Cmerlyn 8y ago
> I feel that this is a fad and distraction LMAO. Using a notebook with executable code is literally the modern version of Knuth's literate programming. While I personally don't do much of it, I loved Peter Norvig's python notebooks[1]. Go through one of them and tell me it's not a good aid in teaching people concepts. [1]: https://github.com/norvig/pytudes/ https://github.com/norvig/pytudes/
joshlegs 8y ago
someone linked me this article the other day about how netflix is using notebooks as a development platform https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/notebook-innovation-591ee3221233 https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/notebook-innovation-591e... i mean i get that theyre nice for doing data stuff and presenting it, but it just seems a bit crazy to use it as some sort of development platform.