The scientific libraries for Python have gotten so good that Octave doesn't really have a chance, unless you are just interested in running some (old) MATLAB co

The scientific libraries for Python have gotten so good that Octave doesn't really have a chance, unless you are just interested in running some (old) MATLAB code and can't get MATLAB itself. This is really all about the libraries and frameworks, rather than the language. And with Jupyter notebooks you get a great UI which is something Octave never had.