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I use all three of JupyterLab, Jupyter Notebooks and VS Code Notebooks.

What I love about VS Code Notebooks - it's almost zero context switching to jump from the the code you are working on to a REPL and back.

What I don't love about VS Code Notebooks (and why I still spend a lot of time in JupyterLab) - the context gets confused as to what cell you are in frequently - so your Ctrl-Enter keys don't work, and you have to manually run each cell one at a time.

~Removed comment about graphs not being inline~ - I stand corrected. Just checked an the latest version does let you show your graphs inline. And they look awesome.

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I use VS Code notebooks a lot, I like the workflow so much that I made an extension for Go called gobook using the API. I bind everything notebook related to shift+alt, so shift+alt+enter to run cell, shift+alt+r to run all etc. I'm learning Rust and working on a VS Code notebook for it now.

A notebook for Rust? How does that work? I thought notebooks can only be used for interpreted language and not for compiled ones...

The way I did it for Go was by having a API start up on the local machine that executes the code and returns the result to VS Code, going to do the same for Rust.

Theres a repl for rust that can be used in a Jupyter notebook. I am also curious about how it works under the hood but here it is for anyone to check out: https://github.com/google/evcxr

> Also - and this is the deal breaker for most people I know - you can't display graphs within your notebook. Until we get that ability - everyone I know who does work and lives off of their matplotlib workstream is going to continue using Jupyter Lab/Notebooks.

Hmm? The latest demos seem to imply that a plt.show() does embed the plot images into the Notebook.

The major limit on cell outputs is more limited interactivity.

The API microsoft provides allow you to make outputs that do anything that JavaScript can do, when making an extension. One of their engineers made a something called REST Book that's a really good example.

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