[domenicrosati]

Hey there - OP here. I haven't used spyder I'll have it check it out.

The primary use case is: I am a researcher in nlp where speed of prototyping is key. I work in an environment where research fragments are primarily jupyter notebooks. So needing to diff notebooks is typically reviewing my own changes when modifying my and others research sketches. Since its helpful to see how code changes.

What really resonates with me is what others have said which is I need to run cells that take 2-6 hours to compute so recomputing cells is annoying... I dont love notebooks for their messy state which cause obvious problems that are very annoying.. and I am not an advocate for notebooks for production for this reason but the flexibility of computing stuff and having that persist and doing downstream prototyping makes notebooks amazing! Markdown and latex in there is also really helpful.

The secondary use case is PRs but... typically reviewing others research code isnt at the granular level of notebook riffs across a few commits so it deosnt come up often.