[tvst]

Actually, Observable is not JavaScript:

https://observablehq.com/@observablehq/observables-not-javas...

I think it's an amazing piece of technology, hosting some of the best interactive stories on the internet — but I too find it hard to use.

[gjm11]

It seems particularly unfortunate for most of the documentation of something that is supposedly a Javascript library to assume you are using something that is not actually quite Javascript.