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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
by j-pb 3y ago
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 3y agoOk but is anyone paying for it?
- j-pb 3y agoWe 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.