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I'd say because JavaScript is insufficiently expressive. No macros, no arrow (pipe) operator, and the premier way of writing it is 4x as verbose than what I'd consider reasonable. D3 is a great library though.
what do you mean by "arrow operator"?
I feel like D3 ought to be the for-computer substrate for libraries that are actually for humans. I suppose it matters less now in the LLM age.
If your LLM is the only one that can reasonably maintain your software, you essentially created a new kind of lock-in, similar to what we already solved with open source a long, long time ago. Once your LLM gets too expensive, goes out of business, and the competitors just don't quite do it the way your favorite LLM does it, you have a problem.
This is why I've always found it weird that people consider D3 to be a charting tool. Yes, people have used it to build a lot of charts, but it's really just a streaming data processing tool. It doesn't provide anything specific to charting[0]. All of that part, you're still left to figure out on your own. [0] At least in the core, I'm not too familiar with the full ecosystem and what is considered official in terms…
This is why I've always found it weird that people consider D3 to be a charting tool. Yes, people have used it to build a lot of charts, but it's really just a streaming data processing tool. It doesn't provide anything specific to charting[0]. All of that part, you're still left to figure out on your own. [0] At least in the core, I'm not too familiar with the full ecosystem and what is considered official in terms…
This is the answer. People need to consider D3 more as a graphics/dom manipulation library than a charting library.
I'd also argue that D3 is no more verbose than vanilla JS (at least for this example). What's the alternative for creating a line in SVG?
const line = document.createElementNS('http://www.w3.org/2000/svg', 'line')
line.setAttribute('x1', ...)
line.setAttribute('y1', ...)
line.setAttribute('x2', ...)
line.setAttribute('y2', ...)
// etc
document.querySelector('svg').appendChild(line)I'd say because JavaScript is insufficiently expressive. No macros, no arrow (pipe) operator, and the premier way of writing it is 4x as verbose than what I'd consider reasonable. D3 is a great library though.
what do you mean by "arrow operator"?
https://blog.frankel.ch/learning-clojure/2/
Something like a(b(c(d(e(7)))))) in Javascript could be written (-> 7 e d c b a) in Clojure?
I feel like D3 ought to be the for-computer substrate for libraries that are actually for humans. I suppose it matters less now in the LLM age.
Mike Bostock is an interesting person, and a case study in why we don't design languages from a single person's genius.