I've always been curious on what Mike would do if he could completely rewrite D3. I saw some experiments with a declarative API [0] which seems really interesting.

It seems like the main learning curve for learning D3 is deeply understanding the underlying web technologies (looking at you SVG), so could something D3-like have a more abstracted renderer?

Anyway, once you use Observable - Jupyter notebooks are forever ruined, which is the highest praise I can give. Thanks for all your hard work Mike!

[0] https://observablehq.com/@unkleho/introducing-d3-render-trul...