[wthomp]

Coming from matplotlib, I found Makie such a breath of fresh air. The API is just as (if not more) flexible but way more predictable. Their layout system in particular is amazing. I think it bundles it's own constraint engine? Congrats on the new website!

PS. Thanks to the Makie team for the shoutout to my corner plot package in the ecosystem section!

[quasarj]

To be fair, matplotlib is pretty awful (the API, I mean). I think it might be the worst library I have ever worked with... Though perhaps I'm repressing some memories there.

[nextos]

The best plotting APIs I have seen are those from MATLAB and Mathematica. I have used Makie a few times, and it is very flexible and well designed.

I am hoping they provide a declarative API that emulates Gadfly more closely. Gadfly is great for simple statistics, sort of a Julia equivalent to ggplot2.

[auxym]

Matplotlib is heavily inspired by MATLAB's plotting, no? Its pyplot submodule is a wrapper around the base OO API which is an almost exact clone of matlab.

[throwawaymaths]

Matlab and Mathematica are awesome. Gadfly had a great API but suffered greatly from Julia's ttfp problem. Tried makie, looked good but that was around when I left Julia (just because other langs paid). VegaLite is pretty amazing.

[velsi]

Check: https://github.com/MakieOrg/AlgebraOfGraphics.jl

[nextos]

I know about this. It's heading in the right direction, but still lacks many Gadfly features, let alone ggplot2 ones.

[patrec]

Have you used pandas? :)

[analog31]

I'm coming from matplotlib too, though I lack the experience to judge whether its API is any good or not. I just use it. ;-) Much as I love Python, there's always that question lingering in the back of my mind, as to what comes after Python. A compelling plot library would be a major factor.