[Certhas]

I think the person you are replying to was using notebook as shorthand for interactively. You don't write scripts that you call, you have to have a repl open to interactively feed code to.

Autocompletion in Julia is also just terrible and the tooling really is lacking compared to better funded languages. No harm in admitting that (when Julia had no working debugger some people were seriously arguing that you don't need one: Just think harder about your code! Let's please bury that attitude...)

[amj7e]

This certainly has not been my experience with Julia people. Sure there are opinionated people in every community, but most of pain points are acknowledged and known.

[DNF2]

I can confirm that there were multiple (heated) arguments on Discourse, where some posters completely dismissed the need for debuggers in general. I remember it quite well.

It was very strange, but I don't think it says anything about the community, except that people have different opinions and preferences, like in any community.