[pizza]

For R&D the feedback loops are much tighter for sketching an algorithm line by line in Jupyter vs a Python file. Error in the 20th function? Ok fine then I’ll just change the cell it’s defined in and continue from the state of after the 19th. If I forget the layout or type of an object, just inspect it right there in a new cell.

Especially if it deals with multimedia, can just blit images or audio or HTML applications inline.

And it’s fairly trivial to go from Jupyter Notebook -> Python file once you’re done.

[mellavora]

I think the author was comparing R and Python, not Python and Jupyter.

[disgruntledphd2]

Specifically I think they were comparing rmarkdown vs jupyter. And it's really no contest, all the things people hate about jupyter are solved by rmarkdown (and org mode, but that's a harder sell)