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Bokeh has a much more sensible API, and it generates an interactive HTML plot by default.

Unfortunately it's missing quite a few specialized plots from matplotlib, in particular the popular histogram plot is strangely difficult to draw.

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Bokeh requires a lot more typing to do the same thing. Also, for interactive work, I often want the GUI, not a webpage with the plot on it.

Have you tried Altair? I am considering switching away from Plotly and have been eyeing Altair. (I have no idea how good it is.)

I'm moving the opposite direction: Altair -> Plotly. I find altair to be too "grammar of graphics" for its own good. And the vega backend makes it hard to hack around. Saving to pdf or high-quality also takes extra steps with additional dependencies.

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