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I remember getting excited about functional approaches to d3, but then the excitement died down https://keminglabs.com/c2/ https://keminglabs.com/c2/ https://

I remember getting excited about functional approaches to d3, but then the excitement died down https://keminglabs.com/c2/ https://keminglabs.com/c2/ https://github.com/seliopou/elm-d3 https://github.com/seliopou/elm-d3 In all fairness mBostock works very hard on d3 and he is prolific at it as evidence by his bl.ocks.org pages but his library is very opinionated as well

pyvpx 11y ago
I got really excited reading about c2, and then saw on github the last update was two years ago. :(
seliopou 11y ago
Author of elm-d3 here. The project's still being maintained, but I've been slow to update it to 0.16 for a number of reasons. First, there's dealing with cabal hell after every release. Second, Elm's FFI is undocumented, so it's always a bit of a pain to dig into the internals get things working again. Second, most of my D3 efforts are now focused on ocaml-d3[0], which is the library that I use day-to-day for building front-end interfaces, not just visualizations. If there's somebody from the Elm community that would like to help out in maintaining elm-d3, let me know. Experience with the FFI that you can point to is required. [0]: https://github.com/seliopou/ocaml-d3 https://github.com/seliopou/ocaml-d3
jdminhbg 11y ago
Most of what C2 provided is now better-provided by React and a ClojureScript layer over top of it -- I upgraded my C2 project to use Reagent. I think this is actually why C2 is abandoned, although I don't know for sure.
- lynaghk 11y ago
  I'm the author of C2, and you're exactly right. React provides everything that C2's underlying DOM manipulation library (https://github.com/lynaghk/singult/ https://github.com/lynaghk/singult/) does. React is faster, capable with more browsers, and has better API hooks that let callers control the low-level details.
  - jdminhbg 11y ago
    Oh nice, and thanks for C2. Really all I had to do was write my own scaling fn and just move the state into a Reagent atom and it all worked the same as before.
  - harperlee 11y ago
    Thanks for C2! I've just looked and it is indeed indicated as "Deprecated" in github, but in keminglabs.com it still states "C2 is a very early project, and there’s a lot left to do." Perhaps that could be updated... I remember some time ago I wondered this, and I didn't see the "Deprecated" in github, if it already was.

pyvpx 11y ago

I got really excited reading about c2, and then saw on github the last update was two years ago. :(

seliopou 11y ago

Author of elm-d3 here. The project's still being maintained, but I've been slow to update it to 0.16 for a number of reasons. First, there's dealing with cabal hell after every release. Second, Elm's FFI is undocumented, so it's always a bit of a pain to dig into the internals get things working again. Second, most of my D3 efforts are now focused on ocaml-d3[0], which is the library that I use day-to-day for building front-end interfaces, not just visualizations. If there's somebody from the Elm community that would like to help out in maintaining elm-d3, let me know. Experience with the FFI that you can point to is required. [0]: https://github.com/seliopou/ocaml-d3 https://github.com/seliopou/ocaml-d3

jdminhbg 11y ago

Most of what C2 provided is now better-provided by React and a ClojureScript layer over top of it -- I upgraded my C2 project to use Reagent. I think this is actually why C2 is abandoned, although I don't know for sure.

lynaghk 11y ago
I'm the author of C2, and you're exactly right. React provides everything that C2's underlying DOM manipulation library (https://github.com/lynaghk/singult/ https://github.com/lynaghk/singult/) does. React is faster, capable with more browsers, and has better API hooks that let callers control the low-level details.
- jdminhbg 11y ago
  Oh nice, and thanks for C2. Really all I had to do was write my own scaling fn and just move the state into a Reagent atom and it all worked the same as before.
- harperlee 11y ago
  Thanks for C2! I've just looked and it is indeed indicated as "Deprecated" in github, but in keminglabs.com it still states "C2 is a very early project, and there’s a lot left to do." Perhaps that could be updated... I remember some time ago I wondered this, and I didn't see the "Deprecated" in github, if it already was.