Also, it gave them a chance to design a snazzy new website! The logo with sun and planets a la Galileo is just brilliant.
On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 12:15 PM, Steven G. Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Tuesday, July 15, 2014 3:46:49 PM UTC-4, Sam L wrote: > >> I haven't heard of it before, but if I understand correctly, the Jupyter >> project is about splitting the language-agnostic parts of IPython out into >> its own project. Looks interesting! >> > > IPython was already split into language-agnostic front-ends (e.g. the > notebook) and a language-specific Python backend. IJulia is based on > this: it just replaces the Python backend with a Julia backend. The > rebranding of the front-end(s) as Jupyter is a (welcome) acknowledgement of > this reality, rather than a substantial change in direction. >
