I've commented on this before, but matplotlib is sort of stuck between a rock and a hard place of supporting the cruft of MATLAB plotting syntax, and trying to

I've commented on this before, but matplotlib is sort of stuck between a rock and a hard place of supporting the cruft of MATLAB plotting syntax, and trying to be pythonic. I'm still a big fan of it because I've grown with it, but I also don't expect that it is the future of python technical plotting. Its more domain-specific, but I do like the seaborn library.