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One weird thing about the language, which seems contrary to this "most productive language" claim, is that it seems a bit complicated to use normal version control https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/26174/what-a...

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The language is version control friendly, the notebooks are not. You explore and document using notebooks (.nb) and if your stuff get serious you should move the source code to a package (.wl or .m) which is just plain text file which is nice for version control.

Right, but I mean it's a notebook-based language/environment so they seem hard to uncouple. Just looking at the link I posted it seems a little complicated. Have you used Mathematica in a team situation?

You'd run into the same problem with Python notebooks. For a lot of data scientists out there, Python is a notebook based language.

The Stackoverflow thread had a few other interesting ideas beyond discarding the notebooks entirely.

Right, but no one is claiming Python notebooks is the world's most productive way to work!

Version control is very easy as long as you're not versioning notebooks. A `.m` file is just plain text.

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