[Solvency]

there are quite literally at least 20 JavaScript data visualization libraries, many with years of maturity. Are there any particular reasons I should stake my personal usage on your library going forward over any of the others besides the "modern API"?

you mentioned you wish you could go full-time on this… How do you foresee this becoming competitive or differentiated from all of the others?

[pvg]

I should stake my personal usage

Nobody is asking you to do that, you can assess that for yourself if you're interested in looking at the project, if not, there's not much point subjecting the author to this sort of interrogation.

[lazyasciiart]

Consider it rephrased in a way that doesn’t upset you, like “what do you think the advantages of your new library are that outweigh the years of development behind existing libraries?”

[joshribakoff]

Its not (just) the phrasing, its that you’re asking a loaded question the author already addressed in the OP. Your question is loaded because it presumes years of development means anything, and the author already wrote in the OP “im aware there are other libraries, but…”

[pvg]

Consider it rephrased in a way that doesn’t upset you

Consider not projecting emotional states on people you expect to reply to you.

“what do you think the advantages of your new library are that outweigh the years of development behind existing libraries?”

Like the sibling comment says, that's an obviously loaded question. But more importantly - Show HN is for all kinds of projects - from polished commercial offerings to learning projects or scratch-an-itch projects in their early stages of development. It doesn't make sense (nor is it particularly respectful of the author or inviting to new authors) to treat the posts of personal projects like a sales call and present them a list of generic, reflexive checkmarks and requirements questions. A Show HN of that sort is an invitation to take a look at something, provide feedback, chitchat with the developer if you have an interest in the particular topic. If fully-baked things are more your speed, you can just find a Show HN that showhns that.

[lazyasciiart]

Why would I expect a reply? I think you have confused me with the earlier commenter.

[pvg]

Cause you're asking me to consider something? Plus it's a forum. So I considered it and also asked you not to be a presumptuous jerk (intentionally or otherwise). That's all.

[graypegg]

Posting a "Show HN" takes a lot of guts. It's not a product a company is pitching to you, it's something cool that someone made and wants to show.

[airstrike]

tbf OP said

> I am aware there are already libraries that can draw to multiple contexts interchangeably, but I've added a few little niceties to Ripl that (as far as I know) some other libraries don't have such as CSS-like query selectors, DOM-like event bubbling, and keyframe animation support.

[Solvency]

i'm more curious about the future of it because he said he wants to go full-time on it.