anecdote: last time I tried Octave, like half a year ago, it didn't want to plot anything and had to be killed after issuing a plot command. Previous time I tri

anecdote: last time I tried Octave, like half a year ago, it didn't want to plot anything and had to be killed after issuing a plot command. Previous time I tried it, maybe a year ago, I didn't have that problem but it didn't run all my matlab stuff (nor did I expect it to). So Octave for us was basically: either a maintainance burden if we want to keep all Matlab stuff running on Octave as well, or else a seperate codebase, combined with possibly severe problems in the basics; which might be easy to solve but do require time looking for a solution. So we switched to Python then (requirements for this particular project were just pretty basic line graphs) and didn't look back.