alt Hacker NewsThis is cool to see from a research team. A few weeks ago I was exploring a similar idea with ntcharts, where a user or LLM can specify a chart in a Golang or JSON object...
and then that spec would be rendered either to a Bubble TUI via NTCharts or to HTML/SVG via ECharts. That Echarts HTML could be naturally served by a Golang http service.
But Flint goes much deeper with semantic layers and settings optimizations. Perhaps a NTChart, or whatever terminal chart, could be a rendering target? I'll add it to the list to explore...
https://github.com/NimbleMarkets/ntcharts/blob/spec/spec/REA...
This is fun! We started thinking it would just be an engineering task in the beginning, but doing a solid intermediate language turned out to be a research project (the paper will be out soon).
Also, I find NTChart very fun, maybe we should add NT chart to the list of compilation backend for Flint so it works in the library. Putting a reminder here: https://github.com/microsoft/flint-chart/issues/45