Support for d3 version 4.x?

[jez]

Last summer the D3 maintainers released a breaking API change, upgrading from 3.x to 4.x. While a lot of things between the new and old version are the same, many individualized APIs have changed.

Is there any plan to support D3 4.x? I'm using D3 for a project right now, and I'd love to be able to use PureScript for it. Right now the alternative is just to add the foreign functions for each new API that I call. Of course, the obvious downsides are

1. the work would be isolated, and not abstracted into a library
2. wouldn't cover the full range of the API like it might be if done in the context of purescript-d3 proper.

[pelotom]

Hi @jez, I've had my hands full with non-PureScript projects lately, and I can't say when I'll have time to work on this. Rather than adding a few isolated foreign functions within your own project, what about submitting a PR to migrate this library to 4.x?

[jez]

Looks like a lot of work 😝 I'll consider it.

Makes total sense to be busy; honestly, I'm impressed you responded as quickly as you did!

I'll see if I feel motivated enough to port things over; maybe as I look at it they'll all have a similar form. My biggest concern though is that I won't be using most of the functions, and as such many would go untested.

[afcondon]

If either of you want to borrow from work i did here on (at first porting, then re-writing) this repo you're very welcome. That's the work i talked thru on purescript-unscripted.

Currently i'm trying a whole new approach which is in this repo.

[pelotom]

Wow, I didn't know about purescript-d3v4, looks nice!

[afcondon]

Thanks! I thought so too (was feeling pretty good about it) - and then i rather belatedly watched Phil Freeman's excellent talk on "finally tagless" parsers and realized that there's a much much better way to do this so that's what i'm working on now.

btw existence of and ease use/examples in your original lib (this repo) was what encouraged me to get into purescript so many thanks for that!

[pelotom]

You're very welcome. The finally tagless stuff sounds interesting, thanks for the links!