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Re:JupyterLab is ready for users by mschuetz on Tuesday February 20, 2018 @09:37AM (#16420569)
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

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Re:JupyterLab is ready for users by ChrisRackauckas on Tuesday February 20, 2018 @11:22AM (#16421459)
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.
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Re:JupyterLab is ready for users by wenc on Tuesday February 20, 2018 @10:35PM (#16426635)
> 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?

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Re:JupyterLab is ready for users by RunningToMars on Wednesday February 21, 2018 @10:10AM (#16429953)
People often overlook the eclipse IDE for Mathematica...

https://www.wolfram.com/workbench/

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Re:JupyterLab is ready for users by qubex on Tuesday February 20, 2018 @10:28AM (#16421020)
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.

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