This project is a prototype space for overhauling the GUI event loop management
tools that Matplotlib provides in pyplot.
The pyplot module current serves two critical, but unrelated functions:
provide a state-full implicit API that rhymes / was inspired by MATLAB
provide the management of interaction between Matplotlib and the GUI event
loop
While it can be very convenient when working at the prompt, the state-full API
can lead to brittle code that depends on the global state in confusing ways,
particularly when used in library code. On the other hand,
matplotlib.pyplot does a very good job of hiding from the user the fact
that they are developing a GUI application and handling, along with IPython,
many of the details involved in running a GUI application in parallel with
Python.
