Makie.jl VS DaemonMode.jl

Just look at this lotenz attractor https://docs.makie.org/stable/

There does exist some code for reading glyph geometry from fonts - you can find some of it in the Makie source directory: eg https://github.com/MakieOrg/Makie.jl/blob/master/src/bezier.jl - you can see that there's quite a lot though...

You'll want Makie.

Thanks! Looks like the Julia Makie library can do graphics and gui widgets as well -https://github.com/JuliaPlots/Makie.jl

There was also this recent thread where some folks were talking up Makie.jl, for which there is apparently also a Grammar-of-Graphics-style wrapper called AlgebraOfGraphics.jl.

If you're looking for native then Makie.jl is probably your best bet. It's still a little underdocumented and the integrations with the rest of the ecosystem are still incomplete, but it's a pretty amazing plotting library. Fast with easy GPU acceleration, good interactivity and animations (great for making GUIs), and easy to extend.

How tricky or hard would it be to create nice looking plots from that? Something like https://github.com/JuliaPlots/Makie.jl but more low level.

Thats for an entry point, you can search `Base.@main` to see a little summary of it. Later it will be able to be callable with `juliax` and `juliac` i.e. `~juliax test.jl` in shell.

DynamicalSystems looks like a heavy project. I don't think you can do much more on your own. There have been recent features in 1.10 that lets you just use the portion you need (just a weak dependency), and there is precompiletools.jl but these are on your side.

You can also look into https://github.com/dmolina/DaemonMode.jl for running a Julia process in the background and do your stuff in the shell without startup time until the standalone binaries are there.

> If I were to use e.g. Rust with polars, load time would be virtually none.

Because you're compiling...

And if you need to do the same in Julia, you should also pre-compile or some other method like https://github.com/dmolina/DaemonMode.jl (their demo shows loading a database, with subsequent loads after the first one taking roughly ~0.2% of the first)

Well, not nicely certainly, but:

https://github.com/dmolina/DaemonMode.jl

> portable

Neither is python - it just relies on universal availability. Over time…

You can get around a lot of these problems with DaemonMode.jl though.

You might want DaemonMode.jl

https://github.com/dmolina/DaemonMode.jl can possibly help in the future. Leaving it here so that people know this is planned.

If you strongly prefer to run scripts though, then you can use the package https://github.com/dmolina/DaemonMode.jl in order to re-use a Julia session between multiple scripts, saving you recompilation time.