The python notebook dependence is one of my least favorite parts of the move to industry. Writing code that gets saved as json instead of plain text, absolutely disgusting.
Feb 6, 2026 16:41Back when notebooks became popular, the markdown ecosystem for literate programming was very much centred around R, but now, with Quarto, notebooks really feel like a legacy technology and they survive because people are used to them
agree. I've been very underwhelmed by python notebooks. perhaps positron can replace them at some point.
