# First steps with Jupyterlab

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**Created:** [November 9, 2019, 10:56am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/first-steps-with-jupyterlab/30893 "2019-11-09T10:56:55Z")\
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If bloat is a primary concern I suspect you’d be better using `jupyter notebook` which opens a slightly lighter weight interface. You still pay the cost of a browser tab (up to 200 MB of you use say Firefox) but in general the notebook is very responsive.

The whole notebook interface is really best for highly exploratory work where you want to see the effect of each command. Especially it helps if you generate a lot of plots.

For light weight I think your best options are Vim or Sublime Text (though I have less experience with this option). If you want to setup Sublime here’s a post discussing it

> [@Sublime Text 3: Worth a look!](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/sublime-text-3-worth-a-look/17142):
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> The “Tooling” category lists Juno and VS Code explicitly, probably because they are considered general-purpose and widely used (and widely usable?). I believe from my very recent experience that Sublime Text 3 is at least on par in terms of capabilities and raw power. I don’t mean to start any flame wars or fruitless discussions on the merits of various editors, but it seems to me that Julia users need to be made aware of the benefits of using Sublime Text 3 for programming in Julia. Just a fe…

I personally prefer the more fully featured IDEs like IntelliJ because I’ve adjusted my workflow to accommodate them. Atom is okay for me, but I do agree there’s room for improvement.

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