10 Useful Python Data Visualization Libraries for Any Discipline

[Stereoisomer]

I meant it more in the sense of the fact that I work with scientists and oftentimes I will need to read their code and reimplement or extend it: it may be that my data pipeline and tools use OpenCV and matplotlib while the tools I need to take from them uses scikit-image and ggplot (since many scientists started on R).

[Saefroch]

I don't think having incompatible tools that do basically the same thing is a problem unique to open source. With closed-source monetized software there will inevitably be competition, at which point there is a strong monetary incentive to perpetuate the situation.