This is a repost of my response on the Julia Discourse on this topic. I was asked to make a blog post so here you go!

The �Main� Plotting Packages

Here�s a quick summary of the most widely used plotting packages. I may have missed one, but I haven�t missed one that is very widely used.

• Plots.jl is the most used. It�s probably the most documented, used in the most tutorials, and is used in many videos.
  • Pros: Its main draw is that it has a lot of plugins to other packages through its recipes system, which means that a lot of odd things like `plot(sol::ODESolution)` or showing the sparsity of a `BandedMatrix` just works. With all of these integrations, it�s normally what I would recommend first to newcomers since they will generally get the most done with the least work. It � READ MORE