I have written a lot of Jupyter notebooks, about 1,300 in total the last time I checked, and I don’t want to do it any more. I’ve tried a few different tools, including the regular Jupyter Notebook web interface, Jupyter Lab, Jupytext, VSCode’s Jupyter plugin and PyCharm’s notebook and scientific mode. Nothing really felt great.

There’s a common sentiment that “Germans make the best cars; Japanese make cars the best.” If you’re unfamiliar, this blog captures it pretty well:

I know that it’s a controversial opinion among programmers under 50, but I actually like Java.