[agentcoops]

Most of my use cases these days are for hobby projects, which I would bucket into the "data science"/"data journalism" category. I think this is the easiest audience to develop for, since people usually don't have any strict disciplinary norms apart from clean and sensible design. I mention double y-axes because in my own past library I stupidly assumed no sensible person would want such a chart -- only to have to rearchitect my rendering engine once I learned it was one of the most popular charts in finance.

That is, you're definitely developing the tool in a direction that I and I think most Hacker News readers will appreciate and it sounds like you're already thinking about some of the most common "extravagances" (annotations, reference lines, double y-axis etc). As OP mentioned, I think there's a big need for more performant client-side graph visualization libraries, but that's really a different project. Last I looked, you're still essentially stuck with graphviz prerendering for large enough graphs...

[huntergemmer]

Ha - the double y-axis story is exactly why I want to get it right. Better to build it in properly than bolt it on later.

"Data science/data journalism" is a great way to frame the target audience. Clean defaults, sensible design, fast enough that the tool disappears and you just see the data.

And yeah, graphviz keeps coming up in this thread - clearly a gap in the ecosystem. Might be a future project, but want to nail the 2D charting story first and foremost.

Thanks for the thoughtful feedback - this is exactly the kind of input that shapes the roadmap.

[graphviz]

Gratifying that it's still useful.

A lot of improvements are possible, based on 20 years of progress in interactive systems, and just overall computing performance.