[j-pb]

If you play the history of Observable backwards you start with a company creating a static site generator for dashboards, which then struggles to find a market fit as it tries to bring datascience to middle management, to finally reach a focused, simple and elegant tool for exploratory programming, data visualisation, and interactive documentation in javascript.

[nextworddev]

Ok but is anyone paying for it?

[j-pb]

We used to pay for 4 licenses, until they switched to the weird pricing schemes and the new editor targeted towards people with no programming experience.

I really wish they would open source Observable 0.5, Pluto is currently the only other notebook left that has the flexible data-flow model at reasonable simplicity.