The workflows enabled by Jupyter and iPython address some of your biggest concerns.
You have references to previous outputs, don't recompute things, and in browser can have GUI interactive elements. You can likely find live streaming monitors too. Though that starts to break what the environment is best at: composing an edited, rational path through a process based on interactive exploration, trial and error.
The problem with in browser anything is that editing text in the browser sucks. It steals a lot of key bindings you can never get back, it allows for selection of the wrong element.
Also notebooks are a horrible way of working. They encourage code to get extremely unwieldy and make managing state harder than it needs to be.
You have references to previous outputs, don't recompute things, and in browser can have GUI interactive elements. You can likely find live streaming monitors too. Though that starts to break what the environment is best at: composing an edited, rational path through a process based on interactive exploration, trial and error.
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