yes ... I feel like everyone is stuck in a local minima (or maxima, depending on your optimisation direction!) of using matplotlib which is "good enough" but no

yes ... I feel like everyone is stuck in a local minima (or maxima, depending on your optimisation direction!) of using matplotlib which is "good enough" but not very good. So there isn't great momentum to improve it, but nobody really likes it. My favorite plotting syntax is that exposed in BeakerX [1], but that's less common than everything else put together. [1] https://github.com/twosigma/beakerx https://github.com/twosigma/beakerx