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I think it's interesting that the value here is essentially "a jupyter notebook" but...

- Evaluations shown in a sidebar

- Automatically figures out what is a calculation and what is a comment/explanation for you

I am not saying this to minimize the app, but to marvel at how much just those things improve the UX, at least for many use cases.




Perhaps the most important difference is that expressions re-evaluate automatically on changes. You don’t have to go manually rerun all the dependent expressions, or wait for the kernel to restart, or worry that some of the results you’re seeing might be stale.




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