I’m often working with a windows desktop and a remote Linux box on which I have my data & code. I’d like to plot “locally” on my desktop workstation from the remote host. This usually either means using X11 (slow) or some sort of web-based library like plotly. Does fastplotlib offer any easy solution here?
I'm in the same boat as the person you replied to, but have zero experience with remote plotting other that doing static plots in in a remote session in the interactive window provided by VS Code's python extension. Would this also work there, or would I have to start using jupyter notebooks?
non-jupyter notebook implementations have their quirks, eventually we hope to make a more universal jupyter-rfb kind of library, perhaps using anywidget. Anywidget is awesome: https://github.com/manzt/anywidget
People have used fastplotlib and jupyter-rfb in vscode, but it can be troublesome and we don't currently have the resources to figure out exactly why.
- defaults are often bad. In R there is a way to turn on double-buffering in Cairo to make things fast
- eventually so went for R-inside-orgmode where graphics are written to pngs (fast) and then displayed inside Emacs (fast over X forwarding so long as you aren’t trying to smooth-scroll with an image half-visible in the current window).
