Are there any upcoming developments planned for the Observable platform? Are new features or evolutions planned? Is any convergence or interoperability planned with Notebooks 2.0. For example imports/exports, offline work, or cells in R, Python and other languages executed at build time?

Great question Nicolas. :sweat_smile: I think you’re not alone in wondering! I’m sorry we’ve been so quiet. I’ve been watching this forum post wondering when I can give a satisfying answer. I can’t quite yet! We’re working on writing something. For now, I just wanted to point out that we’ve started doing a weekly “podcast” on YouTube. (Well, it’s more of a video chat.) We talk a bit about rebuilding some stuff on Next.js and about development efforts on Notebooks 2.0, but so far it’s more about developer experience than about laying out the roadmap. I’ll keep you posted…

Thanks. Looking forward to learning more. I have a lot of questions.

[image] Try the new Observable today Announcements “SECRET” PRE-ANNOUNCEMENT for our friends in the forum: Observable has been working on revamping notebooks on the web. It works with (almost?) all your existing notebooks, but it is also built (like Desktop) on the new open-source foundation of Notebook Kit. It has better AI, both in the notebook sidebar and as a standalone “Chat” interface where every message is a cell. And it has better community listings. It’s still missing a ton of features (private imports, database clients, minimap), but …

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