It’s disappointing to have someone’s misguided hot take get lots of attention. There’s nothing inherently wrong with Notebooks, just like there’s nothing inhere

It’s disappointing to have someone’s misguided hot take get lots of attention. There’s nothing inherently wrong with Notebooks, just like there’s nothing inherently wrong with a command line REPL. They are tools. Sure, neither is a great choice for coding a million-line application, and yet the REPL is the better choice for one-liners, and the notebook is the better choice for a few plots or developing a 10-line algorithm. I’d rather read something thoughtful about when and how and why to migrate from a notebook to something better. Making that easier, without judgement, is going to do a whole lot more good than attempting to shame people with a bad analogy will do. Anyway, McDonalds has scaled larger than any other food chain in the world, so the title is accidentally paying a huge compliment to Notebooks.