On Sunday, July 12, 2015 at 4:47:42 PM UTC-4, Tony Kelman wrote: > > > The only thing I really would like to have > > included by default it plotting tools, because they are so essential for > a lot of things. > > I don't think you're going to find a single plotting tool that satisfies > everyone, unfortunately. Not everyone likes grammar-of-graphics style > plotting, or dependencies on Tk or IPython/Jupyter or OpenGL or a web > browser to have a usable plotting package. Once we figure out the right way > to bundle packages and make larger distribution versions of Julia we can > include a few different choices. >
I'm a Julia beginner who is still using pyplot to avoid making a decision. Choice is overwhelming when starting out with a new language, having a basic distribution that includes sensible defaults (eg. Enthought's scipy distribution) will help a lot.
