[rogue7]

I love Vega(-lite) / Altair, the grammar of graphics plotting system is really great to build any kind of chart even when it wasn't thought through by the authors of the library. There are other wrappers for languages that lack viz libraries, such as Elixir / Livebook [0]

However, when I used it a couples years back it struggled with large vizs, I think due to Vega(-lite)'s way of embedding the data in the viz artifact.

Also, interactive is nice but often I just need a quick static plot, and matplotlib is more convenient for this, you can easily see the png in any environment etc.

These days I'm eager to see an Observable Plot [1] wrapper for Python ! See [2] for a comparison to vega-lite

[0] https://github.com/livebook-dev/vega_lite

[1] https://github.com/observablehq/plot

[2] https://observablehq.com/@observablehq/plot-vega-lite