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by forrestthewoods 1463 days ago
I’ve done it in both JavaScript and Rust. At the end of the day it’s just a bunch of lines, circles, polygons, and text.
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That's true of almost all computer UI (excepting 3D modeling). It's all just boxes and text.
Kind of. Except with SVG data viz you likely don’t need a layout engine. It doesn’t need to be “responsive” and render differently on different devices.