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.
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.
Svg support is also native, which is great for certain applications.
Python had some pretty cool math graph library (matplotlib, plotly, seaborn, silx…), R is also well know for this kind of stuff.
TIL the python plotly library is a wrapper round a JS library of the same name
With all my dislike towards Matlab, it had great plots.
Depends what you want to do, but for scientific stuff, R or MATLAB.
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.
I jumped on Julia in the beginning (somewhere around 2015). I even bought the data analysis book by Bogumil Kaminski published a few years ago. However, Julia never made me feel comfortable. The syntax felt too complicated, even for smaller things. In addition, I kept running into compilation and package version issues, which cost me more time than I gained from typing or vectorization. The claims of some Julia followers that the language would soon surpass R or Python added another bad taste to the whole experience. I think this is part of the reason why Julia remains a niche language to this day. I stopped using it completely.
Manim Community is a community fork of 3blue1brown’s awesome manim visualization library for python.
Python Bokeh: https://bokeh.org/
Processing at least for 2d stuff.
Mathematica’s visualizations are good, but this is the first and last positive thing I’ll ever say about it otherwise lmao
