Is it just me, or is matplotlib just a garbage fucking library?

With how amazing the python ecosystem is and how deeply integrated libraries are to everyday tasks, it always surprises me that the “main” plotting library in python is just so so bad.

A lot of it is just confusing and doesn’t make sense, if you want to have anything other than the most basic chart.

Not only that, the documentation is atrocious too. There are large learning curve for the library and an equally large learning curve for the documentation …

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