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Chris Heilmann, Daniel Cranney & Eddie Jaoude • WeAreDevelopers LIVE

On this week’s show we welcome Eddie Jaoude - long-time advocate of open source and Developer Advocate at PayPal, to talk about his journey as a digital nomad, and what PayPal are doing to give agents guardrails and skills with their APIs.

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Building charts once and shipping them everywhere sounds simple - until you're maintaining separate rendering logic for web, iOS, Android, macOS, and Windows, and your "unified" solution turns out to be a web-view wrapper in a native shell.


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  • Highcharts is mature and accessible but web-centric at its core, so native mobile still means shipping a browser component under the hood. 
  • ECharts handles big datasets well and is fully open-source, but has no dedicated commercial support and the same browser-rooted architecture as Highcharts.

SciChart takes a different route. At the core is Visual Xccelerator™, a proprietary C++ engine that renders natively against DirectX, Metal, OpenGL ES, or WebGL depending on the platform — no web-view in the loop, no browser component smuggled into your native app. That architecture is what makes handling up to 1 billion data points possible, backed by dedicated native SDKs for Android, iOS, macOS, WPF, and JavaScript instead of one implementation wrapped six different ways. Licensing is developer-based too, not per-seat or usage-based, so your bill doesn't spike the moment your user count does.

For teams evaluating a charting stack, the practical takeaway is to test against your actual constraints - streaming data volume, true native rendering vs. embedded browser, and how licensing costs behave as you grow - rather than picking on ecosystem popularity alone.

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Source: SciChart Blog — Best Cross-Platform Charting Libraries for Enterprise Apps


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