Comment by thomasp85

I don't think we will get the various niche geoms that have been developed by the ggplot2 community anytime soon.

The point of this is not to superseed ggplot2 in any way, but to provide a different approach which can do a lot of the things ggplot2 can, and some that it can't. But ggplot2 will remain more powerful for a lot of tasks in many years to come I predict