First time stumbling across Beaker Notebook. Looks great! Recently heard about Jupyter[1][2], which is a project to generalize the IPython backend to be language agnostic. Are the various Two Sigma financial services entities using Beaker internally? Seems like a natural fit for the highly mathematical nature of the work Two Sigma staff and entities are engaged in.
Interesting tweet from one of the IPython/Jupyter devs[3] last year about Beaker. Jupyter and Beaker state similar missions, although Beaker seems to have focused more on "multiple languages within a single notebook" leveraging the IPython backend. Sounds like the two projects can both co-exist due to the slightly different emphasis influencing each project's trajectory.
Jupyter is coming BUT I have zero idea why the community around iPython still doesn't know that iPython will only equal the Python back end and Jupyter will be the over all project.
This switch is happening in iPython 3.0 and still the lack of public information is concerning for me. It feels that Jupyter has loss steam????
Jupyter definitely hasn't lost interest - the IPython team is currently spending a lot of time finishing up IPython 3.0 and seeking funding (grants, etc.). IPython 3.0 is due to be released soon now (3.0 beta 1 was tagged a few days ago, and the development is somewhat in a soft freeze in preparation for 3.0). The general plan is to split up the IPython repo and transition to a Jupyter repo after 3.0 is released, and have a relatively quick iteration to 4.0 (mainly consisting of the repo split).
Interesting tweet from one of the IPython/Jupyter devs[3] last year about Beaker. Jupyter and Beaker state similar missions, although Beaker seems to have focused more on "multiple languages within a single notebook" leveraging the IPython backend. Sounds like the two projects can both co-exist due to the slightly different emphasis influencing each project's trajectory.
[1] http://jupyter.org/
[2] https://speakerdeck.com/fperez/project-jupyter
[3] https://twitter.com/Mbussonn/status/481108119633035264