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I don't know Datashader that well, but from what I understand, it generates an image from a set of primitives (e.g. points), and then allows you to interactively inspect that image…

All true, except the bit that wgpu-py compiles to WASM. It's all desktop. In the plans that we do have for running the browser, Fastplotlib, Pygfx and wgpy-py will still be Python,…

That's because WebGPU is still experimental. This will change, as it's set to replace WebGL. Fastplotlib / pygfx are primarily meant to run on desktop. When using it via the notebo…

I have a feeling there's room for improvement for importing Pygfx as well. I think we should indeed strive that simple plots load super-quick.

To clarify this a bit, wgpu is a Rust implementation of WebGPU, just like Dawn is a C++ implementation of WebGPU (by Google). Both projects expose a C-api following webgpu.h. wgpu-…

One big difference is that Fastplotlib is based on GPU tech, so its capable of rendering much larger datasets interactively.

Not sure if this is what you're asking :) but the UI framework will somehow provide access to the OS-level surface object, so that the GPU API can render directly to the screen.

Yeah, sounds like QRhi is about at the level of WebGPU/wgpu-py. It sounds to me that Qt created their own abstraction over Vulkan and co, because wgpu did not exist yet. I can't re…

Apart from being based on wgpu, Pygfx also has a better design IMO. Korijn deserves the credit for this. It's inspired by ThreeJS, based on the idea to keep things modular. We deli…

I wish. The revenue from the ads goes to readthedocs, AFAIK nothing is paid to the maintainers of the project. That said, readthedocs is a pretty nice platform to host your docs in…

From what I understand, QRhi has a very different purpose then Pygfx, so I'm not sure how to answer this question.

This is indeed one of the major differences. Many of the problems that are plaguing Vispy are related to OpenGL. The use of wgpu solves many of them. Also, wgpu forces you to prepa…

It's definitely still our intention to make it run in the browser. We're not actively working on that yet, but we've recently been able to remove some hurdles on that path, in part…

As a contractor I would never install spyware on my machine for a client. That's not a healthy professional relationship. I do see the problem that some people pretend to be more e…

I'm generally eager to share what I make, and have written quite a few open source tools. It's gratifying to polish up a piece of software to a high standard ... But deliberately n…

Improved support for using the keyboard, including keyboard shortcuts.

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Good point. I guess I just defaulted to GPL. At first glance, I think it does not matter since Aferro protects code that runs serverside, and the TimeTagger library is both server …

Thanks, good point!

Thanks for the clarification! I see what you mean now. 1. I think I'd go with graying-out records that do not match the selected tags. 2. The tags are part of the description, but …

Thanks for the feedback! Your suggestion about tag colors is interesting - my earlier timetracker (timeturtle.app) does exactly this, but I felt the colors were too distracting. Wi…