I've always been confused about how people could consider D3 to be a charting library. It provides nothing that is specific to drawing any particular chart. Wha

I've always been confused about how people could consider D3 to be a charting library. It provides nothing that is specific to drawing any particular chart. What it provides is strictly DOM manipulation. If you don't know how to write the HTML or SVG necessary to make the chart you want, D3 isn't going to do anything for you. Now, as a DOM manip lib, I certainly like it a lot better than something like jQuery, but some of the newer offerings like React are a little more intentionally designed and don't have as many anachronistic design choices. D3 is just too much its own thing. There aren't many other JS libraries that follow the same DSL pattern that they've developed for it, so it can take quite a lot of ramp up time to get people used to it.