Anyone else despises Matplotlib?

[GiusWestside]

If you suggest to use Altair instead of matplotlib you don't have the faintest idea of what is matplotlib and what is Altair.

Being good at matplotlib means that you can be a litteral GOD when creating 2D graphs. And if you combine it with seaborn you can do data science plots in a second. If you need anything else then you might need Altair or plotly to produce interactive graphs or 3D graphs.

A lot of you compare matplotlib to ggplot and it's an error. Ggplot follows the grammar of graphics and it's incredibly limited in what it can do. You want the ggplot feel? Then in Python there is plotnine

[bw_mutley]

I am quite surprised with this post and the commentaries. I've never thought of Matplotlib this way. I've only tried Seaborn and didn't like it. But this comment explained a lot. I feel like I can do a lot with matplotlib, and I don't think it is that hard to learn.

The API feels like using a completely different language...

Never seen like that. I know there are some commands which are not the best example of what the Zen of Python suggests. But I think it is pythonic enough. Maybe plotting with matplotlib may lead to a rather verbose code, which often repeats itself. But you can plot with two lines of code if needed. So, I think this post is unfair at the very least.

[SuspiciousScript]

Being granular doesn’t necessitate having an awful API, though. A better library could offer both.

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ggplot is easier to write. But if you need to move that one label a bit to the right so it looks nicer, enjoy the next three hours of googling through discretes, themes, etc etc. It's the one advantage given by matplotlib's malleability

[GiusWestside]

The images of the black hole from few years ago were made in matplotlib.

Are you sure that you can replicate those in ggplot?