> haven't encountered much gnuplot use nowadays when I run top on a login server on HPC systems, there's always a few gnuplots doing something. > Matplotlib i

> haven't encountered much gnuplot use nowadays when I run top on a login server on HPC systems, there's always a few gnuplots doing something. > Matplotlib is truly terrible If Matplotlib is now considered terrible, then at least it has advanced the standard expectation. When I started plotting stuff, choosing among plplot, plotutil, latex, gnuplot etc, Matplotlib was and remains a great choice. And it does what you prescribe: > first design then language (or use an existing one) and just implement libraries to do what you want