Plots.jl -- a user extendable plotting API for the julia programming language

There are plenty of excellent plotting libraries in the world. Each one excels for a different use case: one is good for printed 2D publication figures, the other is good at interactive 3D graphics, another one has excellent L A TEX integration and one is good for creating dashboards on the web. The aim of Plots.jl is to enable the user to use the same syntax for many different plotting libraries, such that it is possible to change the used library without needing to touch the code that creates the content and having to learn yet another application programming interface (API) with different concepts. This is achieved by the separation of plot specification from the backend implementation. Together with a user extendable recipe system that allows users and package authors to create new plotting types from existing ones yields a high reuse potential. Plots.jl is publicly available at https://github.com/JuliaPlots/ Plots.jl.