I'm really grateful that octave exists and that folks let me use it for free. But the part about "Drop-in compatible with many Matlab scripts" has been kind of

I'm really grateful that octave exists and that folks let me use it for free. But the part about "Drop-in compatible with many Matlab scripts" has been kind of dicey for me. Whenever I try to run code developed with matlab using Octave I am thwarted by bugs and stubbed functions. I end up either having to find a machine with a matlab license or just port it. The core functionalities for doing math and matrix-ey stuff seem great, but when I start pulling in a bunch of libraries to do less common things, the wider ecosystem doesn't seem as fully baked as, for example Python or R.