[analog31]

I'm a so called "scientific" programmer, meaning that I use programming as a tool for solving problems, not for writing software that others will use. Many of my programs run only once, or a few times with changes each time.

I've switched virtually all of my work to Jupyter, including some lab automation, but also data analysis, modeling, visualization, and so forth. I use it as an interactive lab notebook that can "do" things.

Of all the tools I've used in 40+ years, my Jupyter notebooks are the best thing I've experienced for being able to go back and understand things I've done, weeks or years later.

When I use other editing software such as word processing, I quickly reach a point where I say to myself: "I wish I could just pop a code cell in here."

As a fairly mature technology, Jupyter has a lot of known quirks and shortcomings (I'm talking about you, out-of-order execution and hidden state), but I'm putting up with them because the benefits are huge.