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I'm somewhat hopeful the growing ubiquity of especially Jupyter notebooks leads to better, more universal tools for literate programming. Notebooks have always

I'm somewhat hopeful the growing ubiquity of especially Jupyter notebooks leads to better, more universal tools for literate programming. Notebooks have always been a form of literate programming. Jupyter and its underlying formats are now ubiquitous enough with a lot of strong IDE support (across a variety of IDEs) that I'm hopeful a better convergence as a "general literate programming platform" from the notebook side may just be a matter of time. (Other than that a lot of strong LP proponents so far seem to mostly be oblivious to the happenings in Notebook spaces and vice versa, despite there being so much cross-over.)

svat 5y ago
Yes I agree (and share the hope). In fact, earlier today I was thinking about Peter Norvig's "pytudes" (https://github.com/norvig/pytudes https://github.com/norvig/pytudes) as good examples of literate programming — and they are notebooks. Also, last weekend I picked up some code I had written a few months ago, threw it all away and started writing it in a notebook (Colab) precisely for this "literate programming" reasons. There's also "nbdev" (https://github.com/fastai/nbdev https://github.com/fastai/nbdev) which seems like it should be the best of both worlds, but I couldn't quite get it to work.