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Question: are there any charting libraries based on the same principles?

• viraptor 6y ago
  Not the same principle, but in case you hadn't heard of sixel (https://github.com/saitoha/libsixel https://github.com/saitoha/libsixel), there's sixelplot (https://github.com/kktk-KO/sixelplot https://github.com/kktk-KO/sixelplot)
• Quarrel 6y ago
  Visidata is pretty cool - https://www.visidata.org/ https://www.visidata.org/ While it offers console based interactive exploration of your data you can also get it to just spit out the graph you want.
• mekster 6y ago
  If we finally (at 2020) get some sort of stable image capability to the terminal, we can start to have a lot of charting or other creative capabilities incorporated into CLI tools instead of the ancient way of drawing by characters. Is there a reason why the terminals aren't evolving toward that way?
  • makapuf 6y ago
    What would be the difference then with a plain X (or wayland) app launched from the terminal ?
    • mekster 6y ago
      You can run from any platform on a remote server without GUI support? It's a huge difference.
    • jlokier 6y ago
      Ergonomics. Charts, small images, interactive diagrams, flow charts etc can be more ergonomic when part of the CLI text flow than opened as a separate window.