Learning another plotting library is the last thing I want in the world.
Plost – a deceptively simple plotting library
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Re: Plost – a deceptively simple plotting library
#12Learning another plotting library is the last thing I want in the world.
Look at their examples though, it's actually simple enough there doesn't seem to be much of anything to learn: https://share.streamlit.io/tvst/plost
Re: Plost – a deceptively simple plotting library
#13What you need 99% of the time is insanely easy The other 1% is impossible. Use Vega-Lite instead! I really like that as a preemptive strike against the leaky abstraction crowd.
My general complaint as a distinguished member of the leaky abstraction crowd is not that abstractions can be leaky, but rather that they are sold as if they weren't... with creators being so willing to ignore from how many places their abstractions leak.
This is not the case here. It clearly says: "we can deal with the simple cases nicely! but no promises beyond that!". It's fair.
My core argument is that tools do not solve problems, they transform them, and you can't trust a tool that doesn't acknowledge that. This one is saying it transforms the common cases into simple ones.
Re: Plost – a deceptively simple plotting library
#14What you need 99% of the time is insanely easy The other 1% is impossible. Use Vega-Lite instead! I really like that as a preemptive strike against the leaky abstraction crowd.
My general complaint as a distinguished member of the leaky abstraction crowd is not that abstractions can be leaky, but rather that they are sold as if they weren't... with creators being so willing to ignore from how many places their abstractions leak. This is not the case here. It clearly says: "we can deal with the simple cases nicely! but no promises beyond that!". It's fair. My core argument is that tools do n…
About that streamlit. On Firefox for Android it doesn't work and displays a "Oh no" error message.
I checked other streamlit examples from the streamlit front page and they worked. So yours is broken somehow.
Re: Plost – a deceptively simple plotting library
#15Learning another plotting library is the last thing I want in the world.
Look at their examples though, it's actually simple enough there doesn't seem to be much of anything to learn: https://share.streamlit.io/tvst/plost
Naturally, it's already dead. Yeah, what did I even expect… So, how many people is it really — HN front-page with 52 upvotes?
Re: Plost – a deceptively simple plotting library
#16Readme on streamlit, which says:
Oh no. Error running app. If this keeps happening, please contact support.
Re: Plost – a deceptively simple plotting library
#17Seems similar to plotly / plotly express?
Re: Plost – a deceptively simple plotting library
#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
My general complaint as a distinguished member of the leaky abstraction crowd is not that abstractions can be leaky, but rather that they are sold as if they weren't... with creators being so willing to ignore from how many places their abstractions leak. This is not the case here. It clearly says: "we can deal with the simple cases nicely! but no promises beyond that!". It's fair. My core argument is that tools do n…
About that streamlit. On Firefox for Android it doesn't work and displays a "Oh no" error message. I checked other streamlit examples from the streamlit front page and they worked. So yours is broken somehow.
Argh I was making some changes and messed things up. Sorry about that.
Re: Plost – a deceptively simple plotting library
#19As a plotting library, I think that the README would deserve to have at least a representative plot example.
It would deserve a simple README..not linked elsewhere, which already broke up.
Re: Plost – a deceptively simple plotting library
#20What is the difference to https://altair-viz.github.io/ which I use in Python to create vega-lite plots? Can you create interactivity with Plost? Unfortunately https://share.streamlit.io/tvst/plost is still broken, so I can't really assess this.