Marimo Executes Notebooks Reactively Like an Excel Spreadsheet
Akshay Agrawal · ⚡️The Future of Notebooks - with Akshay Agrawal of Marimo · Jul 18, 2025 · at 8:41
Akshay Agrawal, creator of the reactive Python notebook Marimo, explains how multi-column layouts execute non-linearly.
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“And the way that the order of execution works, It's just based on variable declarations and references, kind of like Excel in some sense, right? So you can have columns, things just kind of execute in the right way.”
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