I develop an open source notebook widget. Working with marimo has been a joy compared to developing on top of any other notebook environment.
The team is responsive and they care about getting it right. Having a sane file format for serializing notebooks is an example of this. They are thinking about core problems. They are also building in the open.
The core jupyter team is very unresponsive and unfocused. When you have a bug, you need to figure out which one of many many interelated projects caused the bug, issues go weeks without a response. It's a mess.
Then there are the proprietary notebook like environments. VSCode notebooks, and google colab in particular. They frequently rely on opaque undocumented APIs and are also very unresponsive.
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I develop an open source notebook widget. Working with marimo has been a joy compared to developing on top of any other notebook environment.
The team is responsive and they care about getting it right. Having a sane file format for serializing notebooks is an example of this. They are thinking about core problems. They are also building in the open.
The core jupyter team is very unresponsive and unfocused. When you have a bug, you need to figure out which one of many many interelated projects caused the bug, issues go weeks without a response. It's a mess.
Then there are the proprietary notebook like environments. VSCode notebooks, and google colab in particular. They frequently rely on opaque undocumented APIs and are also very unresponsive.
(someone from the marimo team here)
Happy to hear it! Got a link to your widget? I am assuming it's an anywidget?