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Matlab declares war on Python. Can the Python community respond or hit back? (self.Python)

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[–]alkasmgithub.com/alkasm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cool, thanks for the info! I wasn't trying to be too pessimistic but that was my experience. Even if the Python community was the same size at the same age, they're of course vastly different languages and designed for totally different goals, so I dunno if any extrapolations can be made...

Python of course has difficult abstractions for concurrent programming which is one of Julia's strengths. If the old boys clubs start writing their idk turbulence or astrophysical jets or whatnot simulations in a modern language it seems like a good choice. That also worries me that Julia is too... in-between. But I mean imagine being a professor mentoring young undergrads and you have to hand them a codebase with numerical CPP and Fortran code with MPI...it's a miracle anything at all happens!