> Half the data science stuff isn't reproducible, not because of the science, but because getting the notebooks running with its dependencies is almost impossib

> Half the data science stuff isn't reproducible, not because of the science, but because getting the notebooks running with its dependencies is almost impossible. As someone who did scientific programming in other languages (Fortran/C++), I can assure you the nonreproducibility was there in those projects as well. Not because of the tech stack but because no one valued reproducibility. The current situation with notebooks isn't worse. It's more of the same. I think people criticize it more because notebooks are advertised as reproducible research.