The question is about lock-in and choice. You can see on the thread the Observable authors seem almost proud of the fact that their tooling is so good that it c

The question is about lock-in and choice. You can see on the thread the Observable authors seem almost proud of the fact that their tooling is so good that it couldn't possibly ever be made to be more compatible with everyone else's way of working. In the rapidly moving JS world, this is arrogant and shows poor foresight. I love learning new tools, but this notebook craze is alarming. When I pay a python contractor I have to specify "a runnable script" or I get a jupyter notebook as a deliverable. I hate to think D3 is going the same way. It's no good to make your tool so hard that it needs a dedicated, incompatible (and morally superior) development environment.