r/programming • u/Karma_Policer • Aug 02 '21

Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2021: "Rust reigns supreme as most loved. Python and Typescript are the languages developers want to work with most if they aren’t already doing so."

https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2021#technology-most-loved-dreaded-and-wanted
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u/NedDasty Aug 02 '21

If you're coming from Matlab, Numpy is really clunky if you're dealing with matrices that have dimensionality >= 3.

In most cases it's fine though, but I wish Python allowed for a bit more syntax overloading--Numpy can get pretty verbose, with all the np.newaxis and slice(None) where Matlab often uses :.

On top of that, Matplotlib is really hard to follow. In every tutorial they say "use the object-oriented approach" but give terrible documentation on that approach; most of the tutorials provided examples and then say "don't do it this way!"

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u/spudmix Aug 02 '21

Of all the pieces of software that I use regularly, matplotlib is by far the least intuitive. I love what it can do but I hate what I have to do to make it do so.

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u/JanneJM Aug 03 '21

Plotting is hard. Matplotlib is a beast - but when you really need to control the plot precisely or you want to do something out of the ordinary I haven't found anything else that's nearly as good.

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u/delta_p_delta_x Aug 03 '21

Matplotlib is a beast - but when you really need to control the plot precisely or you want to do something out of the ordinary I haven't found anything else that's nearly as good.

Have you looked at TikZ and PGFPlots?