[HN Gopher] I decided not to commercialize nbdev
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I decided not to commercialize nbdev
Author : tim_sw
Score : 42 points
Date : 2023-05-31 19:19 UTC (3 hours ago)
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| crimsoneer wrote:
| I really like nbdev, and the entire paradigm it encourages. I
| wish the onboarding was slightly smoother (a slick interactive
| tutorial type thing in vscode would do it a world of good) but
| it's now my default project base when I'm working on personal
| projects.
| mloncode wrote:
| That's great to hear!
| marktangotango wrote:
| What is nbdev?
|
| > nbdev is an innovative software development framework for
| Python that embraces literate and exploratory programming. I
| worked on nbdev from 2020-2023 with Jeremy Howard and, later,
| Wasim Lorgat. I had the privilege and excitement of exploring the
| boundaries of developer tools and exploratory programming while
| working with very talented software engineers. In addition to
| creating a tool many people enjoyed, I enjoyed using nbdev for
| personal and professional projects.
|
| So I still wasn't sure and navigated to nbdev.fast.ai:
|
| > Create delightful software with Jupyter Notebooks
|
| Ah "nb" is notebook and we're talking about jupyter notebooks
| here!
| enriquto wrote:
| > For practical purposes, you cannot perform code reviews of
| notebooks on GitHub without purchasing a tool called ReviewNB.
|
| This is false. If you save your notebooks with jupytext, they are
| just plain python files that can be reviewed normally.
| nl wrote:
| Heavy notebook user here.
|
| This isn't the same at all.
|
| Often in a well done notebook you'll have data display etc
| which doesn't translate well to a plain python file.
| crimsoneer wrote:
| ... so you're not doing reviews on your notebooks. Your
| downloading a plugin that converts your notebooks, then doing
| reviews there.
| mloncode wrote:
| Hello! Hamel here, author of the original post. I'm surprised to
| see this on the front page of HN! Anyways, feel free to AMA!
| greazy wrote:
| Have you considered approaching Anaconda? This is right up
| their alley.
| mloncode wrote:
| Good question! Yes we did talk to Anaconda (we talked to
| Peter Wang), and they seemed interested in related but
| slightly different approaches. Some of their forays into
| exploratory programming are pyscript https://pyscript.com/,
| the also acquired python anywhere
| https://www.pythonanywhere.com/, which is sort of like
| Wordpress for Python developers!
|
| We ended up partnering with Posit (formerly RStudio) a bit
| more on this at this was a bit more natural in terms of
| alignment of product and vision. You should definitely keep
| an eye on Posit (https://posit.co/) to see what they come up
| with in this space.
|
| I don't think there was an opportunity to "be acquired" (not
| sure if that was what you were asking) because we didn't get
| far enough down the commercialization path to justify that.
| malshe wrote:
| It's great to learn that you are collaborating with Posit
| (previously RStudio)! I love where Quarto is going. I use it
| even in VSCode.
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