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Why I Stopped Using nbdev

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Programmers love to proclaim they’ve found the best tool. Paul Graham called Lisp his “ secret weapon .” DHH described Ruby as “ a magical glove that just fit my brain perfectly .” Pieter Levels ships million-dollar products with vanilla PHP and jQuery . These declarations aren’t about the languages themselves. They’re about developers finding tools that fit how they think. When the environment clicks, you move fast. I had that experience with nbdev , a development environment for literate progr

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