clip mit Homebrew installieren

Projektlinks

• Homepage

Befehle und Aliase

• clip

Projektgeschichte

The official README says the project began in 2011 under the name FnordMetric and originally included data storage and transformation facilities. Over time, the data-processing parts were removed, leaving the plotting and illustration engine, and the project was renamed to clip to avoid stale search results around the older name.

The current repository presents clip as both an open-source command-line program and software library for creating charts and other data-driven illustrations. The README points users to clip-lang.org for full documentation, examples, and installation notes.

Adoptionsgeschichte

GitHub repository metadata recorded the project as created on 2011-09-16 and showed more than 5,000 stars and several hundred forks when checked for this enrichment run. Homebrew packages the stable 0.7 release from the upstream GitHub tag and reported hundreds of on-request installs over the preceding year.

Wie es verwendet wird

Users write a .clp-style text description of a plot or diagram and run commands such as `clip --export output.svg example.clp`. The README examples emphasize line charts, SVG output, C++17 source builds, and dependencies such as cairo, freetype, harfbuzz, fmtlib, and cmake.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

clip is notable in package indexes because it is a compact Unix-style chart renderer with its own declarative language, sitting closer to gnuplot, Graphviz, and ggplot-inspired grammar systems than to generic clipboard tools. For Homebrew users, the package preserves a command-line visualization niche that is otherwise often handled by heavier language runtimes.

Zeitleiste

• 2011: Project starts as FnordMetric according to the official README.
• 2011-09-16: GitHub repository is created, according to GitHub repository metadata.
• 2020: README copyright and repository metadata reflect the modern clip name and C++ charting focus.
• 2026: Homebrew formula tracks stable release 0.7 from the official GitHub tag archive.

Related projects

• The official README names The Grammar of Graphics and ggplot2 as conceptual influences for plot-element structure, and CSS as an influence on syntax and styling concepts.
• The rendering stack relies on freetype and harfbuzz, placing clip in the same practical ecosystem as other precise SVG and text-rendering tools.

Quellen

• https://github.com/asmuth/clip#readme
• https://clip-lang.org/
• https://formulae.brew.sh/api/formula/clip.json
• https://github.com/asmuth/clip