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Cicada vs IPython: What are the differences?
What is Cicada? A Unix shell written in Rust. It is a simple bash-like Unix shell written in Rust.
What is IPython? A command shell for interactive computing in multiple programming languages. It provides a rich architecture for interactive computing with a powerful interactive shell, a kernel for Jupyter. It has a support for interactive data visualization and use of GUI toolkits Flexible, embeddable interpreters to load into your own projects. Easy to use, high performance tools for parallel computing. .
Cicada and IPython belong to "Shells" category of the tech stack.
Cicada is an open source tool with 696 GitHub stars and 32 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Cicada's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of Cicada Shell
Pros of IPython
- Interactive exploration then save to a script1
- Persistent history between sessions1
- It's magical are just that1
- Help in a keystroke1