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I realized yesterday how similar Observable notebooks are to visual (graph based) programming: in Observable, any time you change a value somewhere, all references using it update reactively.

<https://beta.observablehq.com/@mbostock/how-observable-runs>
<https://twitter.com/jaukia/status/1093571831607513089>

Interesting how different UIs for same level of programming abstraction lead to quite different UX.

Interesting presentation on the thoughts behind Observable, how the reactivity is implemented in Javascript and what you can do with the notebooks:
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNbqfQlGkzc>

The notebook runtime code is also on Github. I’m thinking that might be interesting to do alternate UIs or frontends to the notebooks: graph-based for example, or then something that is not editable but for publishing only:

<https://github.com/observablehq/runtime>