3 ms·
This looks fantastic. The model appears very clean and different than Jupyter in many ways: - cells can have names (it seems each cell can only export one name
by shalabhc 9y ago
This looks fantastic. The model appears very clean and different than Jupyter in many ways:
- cells can have names (it seems each cell can only export one name that is visible to the rest of the notebook)
- dependent cells auto-update when a source cell changes
- cells can be generators that auto update up to 60 times/sec
- cell values can be tied to UI elements easily
So instead of Jupyter's model where all cells execute in the same namespace, here you have named cells explicitly connected to each other in a graph and executed in topological order (not linear order).
The introduction covers these pretty well: https://beta.observablehq.com/@mbostock/five-minute-introduction https://beta.observablehq.com/@mbostock/five-minute-introduc...