SVG seems really intimidating at first, but for simple (especially non-work) use cases where you only need to do one thing, it's actually really fast and easy t

SVG seems really intimidating at first, but for simple (especially non-work) use cases where you only need to do one thing, it's actually really fast and easy to generate minimal SVG directly from data. The learning curve is no steeper than learning a does-everything plotting library, again for simple unchanging usecases. Prerequisites: knowing how to scale numbers from one range (data range) to another (SVG coordinate range) using multiplication and addition.