Vega
Hacker ApprovedShares rank 8 of 19 charting libraries by recommenders
Declarative charting language with a rich ecosystem of components and good documentation; critics say the project appears stalled and somewhat inflexible.
Declarative charting language with a rich ecosystem of components and good documentation; critics say the project appears stalled and somewhat inflexible.
12 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 11
- criticize it
- 1
- approval share
- 92%
Recommended in 7 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it carries the badge
- 11 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 11 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 7 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Project appears stalled
“Vega is a stalled project, but they have good documentation”
Comment from 6 Dec 2025 in “Perpetual futures, explained” Inflexible in some design choices
“It's unfortunate that they're doing so in a relatively inflexible way.”
Comment from 29 Jun 2026 in “Announcing .self: A New Top-Level Domain Designed to Support Self-Hosting”
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The four most recommended other charting libraries, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
See all 19 charting libraries, rankedWhat people said
9 of the 12 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“It is only 800 million parameters (4B is also there), with 73k token support, image support”
“A little higher level than full D3 but gives you a little higher level approach.”
“now they can be a bit too low-level for AI agents”
“Single purpose circuits make a lot of sense for this”
“It's unfortunate that they're doing so in a relatively inflexible way.”
“they aim to solve the most important needs for online identity-gated services in a maximally private way”
“they are already quite established with rich ecosystem, and supports a ton of components”
“Vega/VGlite have amazing charting expressivity in their spec language”
“Vega is a stalled project, but they have good documentation”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.