# Choosing a plotting library

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**Category:** General Usage\
**Tags:** plotting, plots, makie, pythonplot\
**Created:** [April 16, 2023, 6:52pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/choosing-a-plotting-library/97556 "2023-04-16T18:52:07Z")\
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To point 4, I think that mouse hovering (data picking in MATLAB) is a very useful feature to have. That’s one point for plotlyjs.jl which as this as default behaviour (as discussed [here](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/plotlyjs-and-composite-figures/97320/8)).  
Looks like it’s also possible with Makie but it did not look straightforward  
to me (MWE would be welcome).  
In practice, I currently use Plots.jl for teaching and for simple scripts, Plotlyjs.jl for visualising results of a 2D production code using 2D rectangular meshes and Makie for visualising data on unstructured meshes. I’m trying to find a way to only use one package…

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