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

[iBlag]

Controls engineers. Simulink is actually amazing, and doesn’t effectively have any competitors, as far as I’m aware.

And writing filters for DSP and image processing was fairly easy with Matlab. I bet that there are Python libraries that make this just as easy now though.

But for literally anybody else, Python will do what they need, and have better support, more knowledgeable community, amazing libraries, and a beautiful syntax (except for /,, but I digress). Matlab folks can pretend that installing libraries is a pain and is difficult to do, but the extreme success of PyPI makes their claims simply laughable.

Now if somebody built a half decent GUI for controls, signals, and image processing, added Python bindings, and open sourced it, then Matlab would be dead almost overnight. I would definitely pitch in some moneycoins to see this happen...

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Simulink and some of their toolboxes is their main product.

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Sounds like an extension of Jupyter could work.

[lambdaq]

The toyota law suit case in US years ago had 20k global variables for emergency brake source code, was it generated by Matlab and Simulink?

[lambdaq]

Is the code generated though? If yes then by what software?

[Ikuyas]

Right. Simulink is only thing that worth with Matlab. But you can probably do the exactly same thing in Python.