As someone who has watched his calculus students struggle with what should 
be a trivial task -- the installation of `Plots` on `juliabox`, I've wished 
it were part of base. The `plotly` backend does not require additional 
dependencies, so with that as a default, it would be one less hurdle for 
newcomers.

On Thursday, March 10, 2016 at 8:11:57 AM UTC-5, Daniel Carrera wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Does anyone know the status of Plots.jl? It seems to have come a long way. 
> At least the documentation makes it look pretty complete:
>
> http://plots.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
>
> I'm looking at the backends. Does anyone know what "Gr", "Qwt", and 
> "unicodeplots" are? Apparently support for Winston was dropped?
>
> https://github.com/tbreloff/Plots.jl/issues/152
>
> I don't use Winston, but I'm curious to know what happened. Was Winston 
> hard to support?
>
> I am currently using PyPlot because I need the maturity of Matplotlib, but 
> I am happy to see all the effort that's going into making a native plotting 
> library for Julia.
>
> Cheers,
> Daniel.
>

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