[carreau]

I think that's fairly normal, having alternative frontends can only be beneficial to the community. I know it also look like there is a single Jupyter team, but the project is quite large, there are a lot of constraints and disagreements internally and there is not way to accomodate all users in the default jupyter install. Alternative are always welcome ; at least if they don't fragment the ecosystem by being not backward compatible with the default.

Also to be fair I'm also one of the Jupyter dev that agree with many points of OP, and would have pulled it into a different direction; but regardldess I will still support people wanting to go in a different direction than mine.

[BiteCode_dev]

The last paragraph let me think your normal is particularly collaborative lol.

[dleeftink]

> Alternative are always welcome; at least if they don't fragment the ecosystem by being not backward compatible with the default.

Genuinely curious; what mechanisms has Jupyter introduced to prevent ecosystem fragmentation?

[williamstein]

The Jupyter community maintains a public spec of the notebook file format [1], the kernel protocol [2], etc. I have been involved with many alternative Jupyter clients, and having these specs combined with a friendly and welcoming community is incredibly helpful!!!

[1] https://github.com/jupyter/nbformat

[2] https://jupyter-client.readthedocs.io/en/latest/messaging.ht...