Go package to make ASCII line graphs

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16 points·guptarohit··11 comments

I hate to be "that guy," but that's not ASCII.

You're correct, but if I was looking for that kind of package, I'd use it as a search term. And, given the pervasive Unicode support, I guess most people would be happy with the result.

Hi, thanks for pointing this, I understand this now:). Thinking about renaming the repository, 'utfgraph' sounds good? or please suggest any other more appropriate(good) name, thanks:)

'chargraph'?

Nice work. I personally have great appreciation for tools that do one task and integrate well. This is the kind of a tool you don't know you need until you're querying vague search terms on your search engine of choice.

nice. there are similar packages for other eco systems like node.js. it makes sense that go gets its own.

thanks, that's what I thought :) Actually I need the same for one of my ongoing project.

Good work. Sad that terminals still don't support even basic graphics though. It's 2018!

Lots of terminals support both inline and loaded graphics. A surprising number of terminals support things like OSC 1337: https://chromium.googlesource.com/apps/libapps/+/master/hter...

It's worth noting that iTerm2 and ChromeOS's HTerm (https://chromium.googlesource.com/apps/libapps/+/master/hter...) are a popular but hardly singular example. The (unfortunately name conflicted) HTerm/Hackterm is a pretty cool example of an older standard: http://41j.com/hterm/

Interesting. Can it be used for graphical interfaces and animation though? Or is it just "show this image"?

I haven't tried, but I think 1337 doesn't do anything destructive to the normal terminal extensions for mouse interaction.

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