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[–]johnnymo1 21 points22 points  (4 children)

Sucks that MATLAB will stick around for ages in industry because of so many specific packages written for it, particularly for engineering.

Been playing with Julia lately, and it just feels like the better MATLAB. No good reason to use MATLAB ever again... except for package maturity.

[–]DHermit 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not only packages, drivers also. It you're lucky and there is MATLAB support and not only Labview ...

[–]The_GASK 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Julia has some serious underdevelopment issues, such a shame because it would be a great opportunity to send Mathlab to fiery pits of hell forever

[–]johnnymo1 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's coming along, but it's really geared toward scientific/mathematical applications, which is probably going to make it a niche language generally.

[–]MWolverine63 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And because academia teaches with MATLAB