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I don't know why I swear by gnuplot and tikz. I feel like the more you use them, the more you will know how to use them, and the faster you will be.

But then I use some wysiwyg and I make something much nicer in no time... Should I really give up on these tools :(?

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They're great, and I guess using them wouldn't really matter for this blog post. But they're useful for generating static things. As soon as you generate lots and lots of graphs dynamically, it's easier to offload it to the client. They'll download the JS library once (maybe even from the CDN, not from you) and you just push the data points which are 1/1000th the size of a rendered graph. (they'll also look better, because you can't do subpixel antialiasing without knowing the display)

It depends on the use case.

Depends how far you're Stockholm-Syndrome'd into using them =]

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Nice TextFace™

nice work!

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