[sundarurfriend]

>> For a long time, one got told that the "correct" way to use julia was in a notebook. Outside of that, nobody wanted to hear your complaints.

> I have never seen anybody in the community say the correct way to use Julia is in a notebook.

patrick's comment is fully in the past tense for this part, and that was indeed a pretty common thing for a long while in the past. Especially pre-1.0, before Revise became mature and popular, an oft-recommended workflow was to use a notebook instead of an editor. Or it would come in the form of a reply to criticism about the slow startup or compilation latency - "the scientists who this language is made for use notebooks anyway, so it doesn't matter" was a common response, indirectly implying that that was the intended way to use the language.

[DNF2]

You must mean REPL, not notebook. I've been following the community since before the move to Discourse, and "use the REPL" surely outnumbers "use a notebook" by orders of magnitude.

[sundarurfriend]

Here on HN (in threads about Julia) the focus was generally on notebooks as I remember it. That's the context I assumed, but if it's about Julia fora in general I agree, the REPL had/has been talked about much more often than notebooks.