I have reservations about Jupyter lab and I don't want to see "classic notebooks" going away primarily for the following reason:
My strongest attraction to Jupyter is that it provides a platform for combining the Python interpreter with Javascript based tools and visualizations. For that reason I want to use and develop lots of Javascript for use inside Jupyter. If in "classic" notebook the javascript interpreter falls in to an infinite loop or has a memory leak or some other performance issue... just close the browser tab. Other notebooks are usually unaffected. Nice! If in the Jupyter lab interface the javascript interpreter falls in to an infinite loop or has a memory leak or some other performance issue... all the notebooks and other features in the Jupyter Lab interface stop working. Not nice. It might be possible to make the lab interface as robust as "classic" if Jupyter lab embedded each notebook in an iframe with an independent web context. I'm unsure of the details of managing iframes or other implications. I think that this is the approach adopted by google colaboratory for example https://colab.research.google.com/notebooks/welcome.ipynb Thanks to everyone for all the great work on Jupyter related projects -- I just needed to get this comment off my chest. Please comment or correct me. -- Aaron Watters -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Project Jupyter" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to jupyter+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jupyter/f625f4c4-1ea5-48a6-853c-89afd09ac2d6%40googlegroups.com.
