This is not a complaint, but merely a comment from a coworker. There are important semantic and syntactic differences. This came up as I recommended using Observable as a core tool for documenting AgentScript, a “kit” for making agent based models. It was followed by “Oh boy, another thing to learn…

Observable is not JavaScript! Documentation?

backspaces June 13, 2019, 3:35pm 4

Possibly "prettier" code formatting would be useful? It hit all the syntactic differences.

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