Doug

now that there is the vega-loader-arrow. What should support in altair look like?

I would not say support is likely. @royshil has valiantly continued to make updates to try and keep it working, but no one is actively developing the code. The approach...

I thought about trying to wrap this: http://developer.chrome.com/apps/usb.html but didn't get very far. In light of the recent down turn of NPAPI it looks difficult to maintain depth.js as is....

No progress with this approach has been made. Another element would be to make this a packaged app with NaCL using the usb access api http://developer.chrome.com/apps/usb. But again, it doesn't...

Feel like writing an expression parser that removes Function calls is safest way to handle this and still allow for the useful evaluation of specs from non-trusted parties. Would someone...

@jheer Thanks for the overview and breakdown. Regarding number 3 what do you think of vega expressions changing to taking either the current string expression form or a json based...