Having taught a number of scientists both pre and post grad, I agree with your take on notebooks/REPLs. Data-scientists are not generalist programmers, in some

Having taught a number of scientists both pre and post grad, I agree with your take on notebooks/REPLs. Data-scientists are not generalist programmers, in some cases, they are hardly more advanced than some plain end-users of operating systems. They shy away from the terminal, they have fuzzy mental models of how the machine operates. Being a generalist programmer that sometimes deploys the work that data-scientists craft, I'd really like an environment for this that can compile to a static binary. Having to compile a whole machine with all the right versions of shared libraries is a terrible experience.