JupyterLab publicly announced at SciPy'16

[Fernando Perez]

Hi all,

for regulars of the list JupyterLab isn't really news (we even chose the name here!). But for those who, like myself, couldn't make it to SciPy'16, here's a summary of the news; Brian and Jason had a chance to tell this story to the wider world, so hopefully we'll begin getting more testing and feedback of the system...

These two blog posts from us and from the Bloomberg team have a summary that may be useful for the wider community, including slides of the talk. I'll update our post once the video of the talk is up:

http://blog.jupyter.org/2016/07/14/jupyter-lab-alpha/

http://www.techatbloomberg.com/blog/inside-the-collaboration-that-built-the-open-source-jupyterlab-project/

This work has been a long time in the making, but we're finally seeing the fruits of this hard labor.  I really think we'll be able to give all our users an excellent foundation to build upon.  

Now begins the "other 90%" phase :) That slow, painstaking effort to make sure that we don't leave anyone behind, that key features are in place as robustly as they were in the existing notebook, and most importantly, that we find a viable path for extensions to be migrated.  We'll work on that but we'll need help from the community as well.  Today we're not quite ready to tackle extensions, as we still need a few weeks of polish in the core of JLab so it can really be used as an everyday replacement (even if it has a few minor regressions).  But once we get there (and contributions from all of you will help us get there faster), we'll tackle in earnest the challenge of transitioning existing extensions, providing a migration guide for old ones, and documenting the APIs for how to build new ones that take full advantage of the new architecture.

Cheers

f

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[Denis Akhiyarov]

This announcement got very heavy up vote and many comments on hacker news:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12098180

[Jason Grout]

Denis, are you denfromufa on HN?  If so, thanks for your active knowledgable participation in that HN thread!

Jason

On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 12:33 PM Denis Akhiyarov <denis.a...@gmail.com> wrote:

This announcement got very heavy up vote and many comments on hacker news:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12098180

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[Denis Akhiyarov]

Yes, that is me. Someone had to answer those questions and address user concerns ;) Feel free to correct me if needed.

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[Chris Colbert]

Thanks for stepping in Denis!

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[Fernando Perez]

On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 1:37 PM, Chris Colbert <scco...@gmail.com> wrote:

Thanks for stepping in Denis!

+1!!

[Simon Biggs]

Thank you so much for this. I absolutely love all of your work.

A bit of feedback. I'm not sure if this would be better placed within Anaconda distribution or within jupyter proper. I love evangelising jupyter notebook as a tool for those looking to learn Python. In my time of doing that, one of hardest points to get across, and it continues to be an issue point for beginners even after months of using the notebook. Is the fact they can't double click on a .ipynb file and run it.

I know that there are tools out there to make this possible, but they are not heavily supported, and sometimes they break (which for these users is worse).

When Jupyter lab goes beta or full release would it be possible for an Anaconda distribution installed on Windows to be able to register jupyterlab to open .ipynb files out of the box? I believe that would make my evangelising efforts at least 2 fold more effective.

Cheers,
Simon

[Jason Grout]

To all: the video of our scipy talk is also now linked in the blog post.

Simon: That's a really good point about default openers for the file extension. The relevant issue is already opened here: https://github.com/ContinuumIO/anaconda-issues/issues/267. Let's all star it, or provide suggestions how it might work, etc.

Jason

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