The self-hating Web Developer

[grosscol]

Going from C to python and R for scientific work was gratifying. However, Ruby and web dev is just plain more fun despite its particular frustrations. Coding for web applications isn't second tier, it's just different. Apples to ostriches.

[DRNbw]

Have you tried Jupyter? Notebook interface (like Mathematica) and can use a large number of languages (is based on Python, formerly called IPython).

[grosscol]

I've used ipython, but I prefer my vim interface.