Hi,

I'm curious about computing software similar to Juptyer. As far as scientific computing is concerned, I've read that Julia and Sagemath are good opensource alternatives. Or maybe an IDE for Python that you may suggest.

I hate to sound like a stickler, but I've recently discovered that there's a Microsoft team contributing to one of the projects that Jupyter needs as a dependency. Perhaps I'm looking at it wrong but, in my mind, it makes it "tainted" software. Granted, I know about the incident that happened years ago with Microsoft buying some shares of Github (which still leaves me with mixed feelings about it). I guess you can say that I'm a Linux diehard.

Maybe I should still give Jupyter a chance -- maybe you guys can offer me a different point of view. But if you can offer alternatives, that would be great.

I have not used Jupyter notebooks so I am talking from ignorance. But what I've read makes me believe they are a form of literate programming. Basically you write an article that you can also run as code -- i.e. you show your work. I use Noweb by Norman Ramsey. The final article completely describes the project, plus it contains all source code and makefile targets needed to build the project, so that it can be built and run from the article with just a couple of commands.

@metaed , thanks! I've never heard of Noweb. I'll check it out.

My Python IDE has always been the text editor... Notepad++ on Windows, and Geany on Linux. I guess I am old school but sure works for me. Have a command prompt open to test my programs. Simple. Same with C/C++, Perl, etc. Only exception was back in the Borland Delphi days. That was a good RAD IDE that worked really well!

Microsoft didn't buy "some shares", they bought GitHub.

(If you currently host projects on GitHub, you'll probably want to migrate them to (e.g.) Codeberg or another alternative.)

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When I write a Noweb project, I use Vim with text highlighting. I wrote a Vim highlighting mode for Noweb. In documentation chunks, it highlights as LaTeX. In code chunks, it recognizes the language and highlights as the language. In short, it gives the user support for multiple languages in the Noweb buffer.

@rclark , that's pretty old school. I actually frequently use text editors for a lot of my coding projects. Some of them though, I used Jupyter notebook for neural network stuff.

@boughtonp , I stand corrected. I never heard of Codeberg but I will definitely check it out. I have a GitLab account, which I suppose might be a good alternative.

@metaed , I like Vim and have used it plenty of times. Other times I've used Gedit for some features that I'm sure you could do with Vim but I'm not knowledgeable enough to do so yet.
(Occasionally I'll even use LibreOffice Calc for other text and data manipulations.) That's great that it has highlighting for Noweb.

A lot of great recommendations here. Thanks guys!