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by domoritz 3295 days ago
This may be a bit confusing but Vega only uses some D3 helpers, it does not generate D3 code at any point. See https://vega.github.io/vega/about/vega-and-d3/ for details.

But you high-level point is accurate, D3 is more expressive since you can use all of JavaScript.