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"Other than a few minor nitpicks"

That would be a nope. Gadfly doesn't meet my needs and seems to have stalled in development, so I use Matplotlib via PyPlot, but Matplotlib is a bit maddening to work with. I heavily considered attempting my own plotting library during grad school but couldn't find the time for it :/

(Although I will say that Convex.jl makes up for all the pain of not having a good plotting library...)

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Thanks for the reply. I agree that Matplotlib is too complex. I'd abandon Python today if Julia had simple charting in stdlib, but practically nothing does outside .NET (sadly, I'm not a fan).

It's worth noting that convex.jl is developed by the same folks as cvx (matlab) and cvxpy (python). They all provide access to the same solvers with similar abstraction and usability.

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