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marimo is really cool, albeit "pure python" is only true insofar as the diff is concerned. other than that, it's an unconnected group of functions that need the marimo runtime to stitch together.

would be cool if marimo could "unroll" the compute graph into a standalone python script that doesn't need the marimo library

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it’s already possible to do this: marimo export script nb.py

Pure-python also helps to work with existing tools out of the box: formatting, linting, pytest, importing notebooks as modules, composition, PEP 723 inline metadata

If you are going to do that, you could stick with Jupyter + nbconvert.

I rarely use notebooks directly anymore unless I require the output to be stored. Do most everything in VSCode with interactive .py files. Gets you the same notebook-y experience + all of the Python tooling.

marimo notebooks are actually DAGs as cells, reusable out-of-the-box in three diffferent ways: as interactive computing notebooks in a reactive environment with no hidden state, as Python scripts, as data apps. So Jupyter + nbconvert (or perhaps you meant jupytext) is not a replacement for marimo.

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