On Wednesday, 5 November 2014 21:43:14 UTC+1, [email protected] wrote: > > Hi all -- perhaps I am erring by necro-ing a thread from last year. > However, this was the closest thing I found to a survey of all the plotting > options available on Julia and I thought it wouldn't be so bad to revive > this thread for an updated discussion. > > How is the field of plotting options now? Has the community started to > gravitate to some over others? At this point, it looks like Winston and > Gadfly are still the primary options native to Julia (and stylistically > quite different), while PyPlot.jl pretty awesomely imports Matplotlib. >
There is no "winner" at this point. I suspect that opinions differ strongly. I once saw someone suggest that we should prefer Winton and Gadfly because they are native Julia. I couldn't disagree more. For me PyPlot is the only viable option because I need plots for scientific publications (in astronomy) and I need a mature package where I can feel confident that I can make any tweaks that my supervisor asks for. The moment I say that I cannot do X, he will say that I should have been using IDL instead of Julia. Winston simply does not have the maturity, range of features and documentation of Matplotlib. My impression is that Gadfly is more mature than Winston (maybe I am wrong) and the API is interesting, but it is not my preferred API. Gadfly should appeal to people coming from R. I am not coming from R. Just my two cents. Cheers, Daniel.
