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I think Julia stands a really good chance at "chipping away" Matlab to a significant degree once it gets to a stable version 1.0 The syntax is close enough to M
by outlace 11y ago
I think Julia stands a really good chance at "chipping away" Matlab to a significant degree once it gets to a stable version 1.0
The syntax is close enough to Matlab to make the switch fairly easy, its got the performance, and the community has already developed a lot of cool scientific computing libraries even though each new version has breaking changes.
- plinkplonk 11y agoI think when Julia gets to 1.0, Matlab will begin to decline in use. I also think MathWorks is well aware of this "threat". The next few years will be interesting.
- datashovel 11y agoI'm optimistic about Julia also as a general purpose programming language. It seems to have taken a lot of good features from a lot of different languages, and managed to do it in a way that feels natural to me.
- KingMob 11y agoAs someone who had to use a ton of Matlab in grad school, Julia's (and Python's) biggest issue in overtaking Matlab is replicating the large collection of battle-tested add-ons that Matlab offers. Matlab is a crappy language, but a productive environment.