"that can be abstracted away in a custom lib" Yeah, and that's really not helpful for sharing code or doing exploratory charting. It's never, ever as simple as

"that can be abstracted away in a custom lib" Yeah, and that's really not helpful for sharing code or doing exploratory charting. It's never, ever as simple as just "being done with it". vega-lite-api is my charting library of choice these days. Much simpler than gnuplot, d3, matplotlib, etc.