[prasoonds]

Thanks for the kind words. Keeping Pretzel open-source was important to us - partly for trust reasons. When most people use Jupyter, they do so with sensitive data. Making a closed source tool simply wouldn't work. I wouldn't have trusted a closed source jupyter alternative with my company's data unless the counterparty was huge and well-known.

To your second point - completely agree that most users would expect these feature from their IDEs today. But, only two IDEs support Jupyter Notebooks: VSCode and PyCharm. You can certainly use them for notebook work but most AI extensions written for VSCode wouldn't be optimized for notebook work (for eg, GH Copilot apparently has difficulty completing code across different cells as per a friend). Secondly, to your point, this is just a start - we're going to be building a lot more Data Analysis specific features that don't exist in any IDE. I think there's a decent space for a tool a like this.