I find your take a little lacking in nuance... It's not the only option but jupyter notebooks are excellent for (at least) quick prototyping, data visualisatio

I find your take a little lacking in nuance... It's not the only option but jupyter notebooks are excellent for (at least) quick prototyping, data visualisation, literate programming and exploring ideas. I write plenty of Fortran and C++ and I still reach for notebooks when appropriate. In discussing with a non-technical, scientist friend, she pointed out that existing notebooks can be used and edited by folk even if they don't know python that well. At the very least I see this particular tech as enabling more science by removing the operational challenge of running a jupyter server. These tools take nothing from those who want to write fortran to do their science but make computation more accessible to those who don't.