why not the jupytext format?

[majidaldo]

#2124

From what i can tell, marimo is parsing code for variables to assign them to input and output. So why not just stick with ~jupytext? If io is going to be parsed anyways, why need a "format" for marimo?

[akshayka]

You mean the file format, with @app.cell decorators? It's to make notebook files lazy so that they can be imported without executing the entire notebook, while still making the code accessible for re-use (ie not locked away in an if name == main guard). We have limited support for notebook reusability/composition (see the App and Cell sections in our API docs: https://docs.marimo.io/api/index.html), with more support planned.

Learn more here: https://github.com/marimo-team/meps/blob/main/mep-0001.md

[majidaldo]

Jupyter grade = F 😆