Having a user-defined float type.

[Please-just-dont]

Feature category

• enhancement - build system

The series of numbers that are used by this library seems to be of type double. In many applications a double is more precision than is required. Do you think it'd be possible to, instead of code like this:

void opengl_embed::draw_path(const std::vector<double> &x,
                             const std::vector<double> &y,
                             const std::array<float, 4> &color)

It's be possible to have something like:

void opengl_embed::draw_path(const std::vector<matplot_float_t> &x,
                             const std::vector<matplot_float_t> &y,
                             const std::array<float, 4> &color)

And then matplot_float_t could be defined as float or double or whatever by the user?

This library started out with a lot of active development, that's slowed down significantly. It's it still being developed? Is it worth making pull requests of my own? I noticed there's one from 2024 that hasn't been merged yet.