If you are not confined by the MATLAB platform, then there are a few options. For example, Julia [1] is a general-purpose numerical computing language that has

If you are not confined by the MATLAB platform, then there are a few options. For example, Julia [1] is a general-purpose numerical computing language that has more or less similar syntax with MATLAB for vector/matrix computation, and there is a Julia package TensorFlow.jl [2] that allows you to call TensorFlow in Julia. There are also quite a few packages in development to adapt Julia to GPU-based computation. And, to be fair, the NumPy/SciPy stack of Python can also be seen as a general-purpose vector computing platform. My feeling is that MATLAB had its days in the 90s. It's just that the most cutting-edge technologies do not seem to be developed in MATLAB any more. [1] https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia [2] https://github.com/malmaud/TensorFlow.jl https://github.com/malmaud/TensorFlow.jl