Also, it is interesting that outside of SV and HN crowd, we thought MATLAB is awesome. We had all the toolboxes, there is a gazillion of them. Even obscure RF related stuff. You just can't find a library for something like a phased array analysis. May be you can, but it won't be as high quality and industry proven as this: https://www.mathworks.com/products/phased-array.html
Another topic that we often understood is that when a jet engine is hoisted up for testing and you need to get something fixed or have a question about in next 2 hours, you need commercial software support to help you out. Gravity of situation cannot be understated. It is stressful. There is OSS software support, but MATLAB is on another level. Absolutely outstanding support. Companies like Apple and SpaceX rely on MATLAB heavily outside of software engineer orgs.
Overall, A+. Will use again.
But the language itself is primitive compared to OSS alternatives, so when you need to develop your own software on a larger scale, it falls short.
There is of course a sliding scale between 'user' and 'developer' in any language, but I think that the closer you are to the 'user' end of the scale, the better Matlab looks.
(BTW, I am a daily Matlab user, sorry to say.)
As a matter of fact I find most comments about Matlab here supportive. I actually do find Matlab to be a polished product, specially in the IDE and documentation part. In the end you use whatever saves you time, that's why most people that use Python have chosen Python: because of the libraries. I have personally found Matlab toolboxes quite simplistic for my own purposes. Most people, myself included, actually trust more that SW is used and deployed in the millions than any kind of support.
Very often if you're paying upwards of $10,000,000 in licenses a month.
> To be fair, I worked for a very large Fortune 50 company and had over 10k licenses of MATLAB.
on another side:
> Absolutely outstanding support.
I think I see a pattern here...
From Simulink to Julia, his code went from 1000 lines to 50 lines and ran 15,000x faster.
