I looked at almost all Julia plotting libraries again recently (last week) for a project, running 0.5-rc1 (approximately). Many have issues and lots of warnings, and probably need time to catch up to 0.5.
I ended up using VegaLite for my current project, and found it very nice. Very close to Gafly/GoG in spirit, even though the actual implementation is different. I only played around a bit with Vega, but it looks very versatile too (maybe too versatile for my present needs). Both are actively maintained and extensively documented. Even though I like Plots.jl very much, the fact that it does not support Gadfly does not imply anything about the latter per se. I am more worried about no commits in the past 3 months. When it comes to plotting libraries, I don't think that there is a clear winner at this moment that one could recommend -- each involves some kind of compromise. That said, this is the situation in most languages: eg while R has a built-in "default" plotting library, for more complex plots many people end up using something else. Best, Tamas On Tue, Aug 09 2016, Páll Haraldsson wrote: > A. > > First a specific matter: > > http://julialang.org/downloads/ > > I see PyPlot. I'm not asking for recommendations, just discussiong what > should be officially pointed to [in general]. > > I can understand that you would not want to take side (or maybe you do, > PyCall.jl is awesome and I guess PyPlot/matplotlib, I just haven't used any > plots..). > > > Maybe the plan is or should be to recommend (only?) Plots.jl (and not > Gadfly since): > > > https://juliaplots.github.io/backends/ > > "Deprecated backends > Gadfly" > > > See also: https://juliaplots.github.io/supported/ > > It's clearly not a simple choice.. and since Plot.jl is just an abstract > wrapper (that seems awesome!) it's not taking sides pointing to it. > > I also really like UnicodePlots :) that may be the only pure-Julia only > solution..? Maybe leave that implicit in the Plots.jl recommendation? > > > [Maybe the homepage just hasn't been changes yet, as Julia 0.5 isn't out > and Plots.jl turned 0.5 only.] > > > B. > > Juno is also recommended. I expect there is no change, expect the newer > Atom-version is now ok and recommended? I've also not tried (seriously) in > a while.. Any other notable [to add to homepage]? I understand if you do > not want to confuse people with choices, why A. seems safe.. > > > C. > > There's another thread on "metapackages" (proposal), should there be more > [abstract wrapper/meta] package recommendations?
