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Please, Observable, put something on the page that says what language this is!

I figured this was like Colaboratory (https://colab.research.google.com) or Azure Notebooks (https://notebooks.azure.com/) or some other hosted-jupyter variant. There was no information about how it should work when I went to the scratchpad, and I could barely tell it was Javascript when picking one of the sample notebooks.

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Not only the language, but have at least one line that says what this is. I can guess that it’s a hosted notebook service, but I can’t tell how it’s different from Jupyter Notebook. Is the difference in the language it uses, or are there other differences?

See https://beta.observablehq.com/@mbostock/five-minute-introduc... and the links therein, e.g. the video they made https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEmDwflQ3xE

I would also like to understand the licensing and how to host the resulting files myself.

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