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What the hell happened to D3. All the latest tutorials began to be highly observable dependent, to the point that I prefer to use older D3 libraries just so that I can work my way through someone else's 2015 tutorial and come out with code that seems at least lean and clean.

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As both a D3 enthusiast and an iOS dev I find this comment oddly compelling. In fact I have always felt SwiftUI to be reminiscent of D3 given they are both declarative frameworks — I always think about d3-selection every time I am chaining modifiers in a SwiftUI view.

I usually disambiguate the Observable website by referring to it as "ObservableHQ", also I thought they were more focused on the relatively new framework Plot than d3 but I agree trying to translate d3 examples from ObservabelHQ cells to plain ol javascript is a severe PITA.

Glad to hear I'm not the only one struggling with this

This appears to be a different Observable (for Swift).

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