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D3 looks really nice, but half the time I try to use it for something that doesn't closely match a Bostock example, I end up giving up and just coding it myself
by alanbernstein 9y ago
D3 looks really nice, but half the time I try to use it for something that doesn't closely match a Bostock example, I end up giving up and just coding it myself with SVG primitives. I don't understand the motivation behind D3's complex API.
- dreamcompiler 9y agoD3 is a functional paradigm for graphics. From the D3 intro: "...styles, attributes, and other properties can be specified as functions of data in D3, not just simple constants." This sounds trite, but it's enormously powerful and it's what makes D3 worth learning.