Chapter 11. Into the Future
IPython has come a long way since 2001, when Fernando Perez decided he wanted a better interactive environment than vanilla Python provided. In the best open source tradition, he wanted some functionality so he wrote some code to do it. This process has continued to the present day and the future of IPython looks to be filled with even more activity. In this chapter, we will attempt to situate IPython within the broader development ecosystem and try to guess where the future will take it. We start out at the project level and take a look at Jupyter and IPython, then take a look at the near future and the effect increasing parallelism will have on the field, and finally broaden our scope to consider the future of scientific ...
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