The IPython console is great. It’s the Notebook (not console) that’s terrible. The two things are not very similar to each other. I’ve been saying it for years

The IPython console is great. It’s the Notebook (not console) that’s terrible. The two things are not very similar to each other. I’ve been saying it for years, even before the great meme presentation this year: notebooks are not the appropriate medium for 99% of rapid prototyping or shared experiment work and notebooks make for terrible units of reproducibility (especially compared to just traditionally version controlled source code with a Makefile or with a Docker container etc). Pedagogy is probably the only serious use case of a notebook. If you’re not working on a 100% pure pedagogy task, it’s a giant mistake to be doing what you’re doing in a Jupyter notebook.