Which programming language had the best visualisation support?
from remustan37@sh.itjust.works to programming@programming.dev on 03 Jun 17:11
https://sh.itjust.works/post/61255492

As the title says, which programming language would you agree had the best libraries for visualisation (graphs, 3d models, charts, networks, animations, etc)?

Prefer languages with libraries that have more visulatizaton features than say, ease of using the libraries.

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muzzle@lemmy.zip on 03 Jun 17:28 next collapse

Python had some pretty cool math graph library (matplotlib, plotly, seaborn, silx…), R is also well know for this kind of stuff.

staircase@programming.dev on 04 Jun 03:08 collapse

TIL the python plotly library is a wrapper round a JS library of the same name

ryokimball@infosec.pub on 03 Jun 18:03 next collapse

Wouldn’t JavaScript really take the cake here? Like, Python definitely has some good libraries but JavaScript lives in the browser, interfaces with HTML5 canvas, and is far more popular by the nature of the web.

supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz on 03 Jun 18:35 next collapse

Processing at least for 2d stuff.

processing.org

RheumatoidArthritis@mander.xyz on 03 Jun 18:37 next collapse

With all my dislike towards Matlab, it had great plots.

felsiq@piefed.zip on 03 Jun 19:47 next collapse

Mathematica’s visualizations are good, but this is the first and last positive thing I’ll ever say about it otherwise lmao

theherk@lemmy.world on 03 Jun 20:39 next collapse

Manim Community is a community fork of 3blue1brown’s awesome manim visualization library for python.

FizzyOrange@programming.dev on 03 Jun 21:53 next collapse

Depends what you want to do, but for scientific stuff, R or MATLAB.

PapstJL4U@lemmy.world on 04 Jun 00:29 next collapse

js has access to Apache echarts, which has a lot of diagrams and good api and doc with example

Python has access to matplotlib, plotly and more.

Both have the advantage of good support for secondary feature for data gathering and ui.

fubarx@lemmy.world on 04 Jun 06:15 next collapse

Python Bokeh: bokeh.org

technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 04 Jun 15:25 collapse

I moved from Python to Julia. I primarily generate mathematical images and videos: fractals, chaotic systems, complex functions, etc. I’ve found Julia to be faster with better libraries for my purposes (eg. VideoIO).

I don’t do charts, graphs, etc… but I imagine Julia has great libraries for that stuff too.