akshayka (u/akshayka)

akshayka commented on Marimo launches VS Code and Cursor extensions marimo.io/blog/vscode... · Posted by u/henrikhorluck

akshayka · a month ago

See the corresponding Show HN from earlier today for a technical overview. There are some interesting components, such as the LSP-based implementation and the integration with uv

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45982774

akshayka commented on Deepnote, a Jupyter alternative, is going open source deepnote.com/blog/were-op... · Posted by u/zX41ZdbW

verdverm · 2 months ago

Marimo has been acquired (last week), does the SaaS enshitification pattern give you any pause?

https://marimo.io/blog/joining-coreweave

akshayka · a month ago

This is Akshay, the original creator of marimo. Our whole team has come over to CoreWeave. We're building a whole lot more, not less, and our number one priority continues to be the open-source. We're also growing the open-source team, i.e. we're hiring.

akshayka commented on Researchers Discover the Optimal Way to Optimize quantamagazine.org/resear... · Posted by u/jnord

akshayka · 2 months ago

Anecdotally it seems like most software engineers have heard of linear programming, but very few have heard of convex programming [1], and fewer still can apply it. The fixation on LPs is kind of odd ...

[1] https://github.com/cvxpy/cvxpy

akshayka commented on Closer to production quality Python notebooks with `marimo check` marimo.io/blog/marimo-che... · Posted by u/dmadisetti

wodenokoto · 2 months ago

I’m very interested in moving beyond Jupyter notebooks so I have my eye on marimo.

My understanding is it’s just python code with a bit of notebook hints and an idea that gives the notebook experience.

So I didn’t quite catch from the article why ruff and pylons aren’t enough.

akshayka · 2 months ago

Hi! Thanks for your interest. marimo is much more than that — unlike traditional notebooks, marimo is "reactive", meaning it models notebooks as dataflow graphs and keeps code an outputs in sync. Moreover, marimo notebooks are not "just notebooks". They can be seamlessly run as interactive web apps or as Python scripts.

Here is our original ShowHN post that explains what marimo is all about: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38971966

Blog that goes deeper: https://marimo.io/blog/lessons-learned

akshayka commented on Closer to production quality Python notebooks with `marimo check` marimo.io/blog/marimo-che... · Posted by u/dmadisetti

loveparade · 2 months ago

I wish this didn't have AI in it. I've been looking for a Jupyter alternative that is pure python and can be modified from a regular text editor. Jupytext works okay, but I miss the advanced Jupyter features. But I really don't want to deal with yet another AI assistant, especially not a custom one when I'm already using Claude/etc from the CLI and I want those agents to help me edit the notebooks.

Take out all the AI stuff and I'd give it a try. I use AI coding agents as my daily driver, but I really don't need this AI enshittification in every tool/library I'm using.

akshayka · 2 months ago

You can not use the AI features, nothing is enabled by default (you have to bring your own keys)

akshayka commented on Ask HN: How do you find early stage startups to join · Posted by u/gavino

akshayka · 4 months ago

For startups that have an open-source component, GitHub is a good channel. That's how our first hires came to marimo.

akshayka commented on Representing Python notebooks as dataflow graphs marimo.io/blog/dataflow... · Posted by u/akshayka

suuuuuuuu · 4 months ago

I would consider replacing my jupyterlab usage with marimo were it less opinionated about workflow - it offers a lot of benefits that aren't tied to its execution model. I like the editor/interface and the representation as python files for portability, version control, and the ability to import from other notebooks, but I have no interest in changing my workflow (in particular insofar as marimo is restricted compared to python itself). E.g., I want to be able to redefine variables and use star imports in my personal, exploratory notebooks, and I'm happy to retain responsibility for top-to-bottom executability (as in regular python scripts). I would definitely consider marimo if these restrictions could be opted out of if one has reactive execution disabled.

akshayka · 4 months ago

Thanks for the feedback. We decided early on against having a “non-reactive” mode. It would negate many of our core benefits (including importing from other notebooks), and it would also lead to a fragmented ecosystem — if someone shared a notebook with you, your experience with it would depend on whether it was executed in “reactive” or “non-reactive” mode. Still I appreciate the kind words about our editor and file format, and am sorry we can’t accommodate your use case.

We describe why we opted against “disabling” the graph at the end of this blog: https://marimo.io/blog/lessons-learned