Jupyter and GitHub - alternative file format

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I really like the shape this discussion is taking. Just wanted to chip in and add my two cents:

  1. There are different use cases and the proposed format would need to take them into consideration
  2. I believe the goal should not be to replace the .ipynb format. This is clear from the above discussion, wanted to reiterate.
  3. I see the text representation as the source code “compiling” to .ipynb. This means that the output cells could be ignored for diff purposes. This is the way any other programming language is diffed
  4. My personal preference would be a markdown based format. More specifically the Pandoc’s Markdown format (already supported by jupytext). This is subjective, but I feel that the tooling around MyST is more complex. Besides, nbconvert already incorporates pandoc and it could be leveraged in the future.
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