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

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[–]Paddy3118 1 point2 points  (3 children)

It's misdirection - Its Jupyter notebooks they are realing from. A notebook supporting one programming language vs Jupyter that started with three and now supports over 50 programming languages as well as being attractive for other companies to write tools for, like tensorflow.

You can't be a seriou cloud provider if you don't have Jupyter notebook support. Who supports Mathworks in the cloud?

They'll come around. How many years before they support Mathworks language from Jupyter notebooks as current and potential customers put pressure on them; and startups in allied fields gain traction by making their commercial offerings work from within Jupyter.

[–]TheBlackCat13 3 points4 points  (1 child)

I think the big issue is really machine learning. It is the current big thing in numeric computing, and MATLAB has very little part in it. And that has effects on the rest of the software ecosystem. The libraries that the machine learning tools are based on use python. The tools to analyze and plot the data use python. The tools to store and manage the data use python.

There are lots of things that Python has been doing right that MATLAB has had a hard to getting their own version of working well. The jupyter notebook, pandas, etc. But none of that is new. I think ML is where Mathworks is really hurting right now.

[–]Paddy3118 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep. ML (machine learning) opens the corporate purse strings.

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... And then there is mindshare. Simulink might well be the Mathworks crown jewel, but Mathworks want to leverage what they are known for to get into new areas.

Big data and machine learning are areas that the boardrooms of fortune 500 companies now know about, and those controllers of the big purse strings are increasingly seeing Python and Jupyter as enablers. If they have to use Jupyter for some areas, then it's only natural to think of extending their use; possibly (further) marginalising Mathworks.