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mritchie71211/04/20251 replyview on HN

seems you completely missed the point. marimo does everything you're looking for in plain .py files that render as notebooks.

https://marimo.io/blog/python-not-json


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Equiet11/04/2025

We seriously considered this, but decided against this. While elegant for demo projects, it doesn't scale for serious deployments. You still need to deal with secrets, metadata (lots of it), backwards-compatibility, and extensibility (we have 23 block types today, many more to come).