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by semiinfinitely 7 days ago
there are so many issues with jupyter notebooks and marimo solves none of them
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"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something." - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

It sounds like you're commenting about this from experience - if you'd like to share some of that, of course that would be welcome.

My biggest problem with Jupyter is hidden state. You have no idea what order the cells executed in and how many times to get to the current state. Pluto.jl and Marimo solve that by using reactivity to make state transparent. WYSIWYG.

I have also been thoroughly impressed how Marimo has engaged with AI agents. marimo-pair is fantastic.

What I like about Marimo notebooks over Jupyter:

1. They're just a python file so they work with python editors

2. There's no hidden state

3. I can import from them

4. I'm not accidentally committing base64 encoded image output anymore

Well, I've enjoyed it. It's easier to set up an run from a virtual environment than Jupyter notebooks. That was a big problem I had for years.
mind elaborate?