[awestroke]

Different charting backends support different kinds of charts. Being able to easily switch between "ECharts Sunburst" and "Vega-Lite faceted bar" - one of the examples on the project website - seems like a super useful ability.

[scary-size]

Fair. How is this specific to the marketed AI integration? This could just be a unifying abstraction layer for a bunch of, in my opinion, verbose chart APIs. And then the LLM could just be the abstraction layer.

[HawtAds]

Interesting, TanStack Charts was also released a couple days ago with a similar design.

https://tanstack.com/charts/latest

[chrisweekly]

Yeah I was going to share it too. I watched a yt video yesterday where Tanner talks about how (in contrast to trad component-based libs) it takes a very different approach to composition, letting D3 do the heavy lifting and using its visual grammar, and staying grounded in putting the data (not the component tree) first.

[HawtAds]

I wish they would provide an ECharts backend, it's probably one of the most performant and featureful charting libraries you can find.