A) there's a discussion happening right now: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julialang.github.com/pull/399
On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 3:06 PM, Tamas Papp <[email protected]> wrote: > 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? > >
