Jupyter is a Rube-Goldbergian nightmare. Python is a memory hog. There are better solutions, to be sure. A simple REPL is all that's needed to both do A-type a

Jupyter is a Rube-Goldbergian nightmare. Python is a memory hog. There are better solutions, to be sure. A simple REPL is all that's needed to both do A-type and B-type data exploration. (I won't use the term "data scientist", it's an exaggeration in most cases.) Python has a REPL, R has a REPL, Perl has PDL and both a simple REPL (https://github.com/viviparous/preplish https://github.com/viviparous/preplish) and a more complex one (https://metacpan.org/pod/Reply https://metacpan.org/pod/Reply). Jupyter should not be used as an IDE because it is the wrong tool for development. A-type data explorers just want a painless UI and may not care much about the horrible agglutination of incomplete/slow/broken solutions that Jupyter represents.