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It will be very hard to displace Matlab out of certain very important niches. For example, across both academia and industry, Matlab is king in control systems
by ThenAsNow 8y ago
It will be very hard to displace Matlab out of certain very important niches. For example, across both academia and industry, Matlab is king in control systems design/analysis thanks to its toolboxes, Simulink, and (at least in industry), its autocoder. Matlab is used to generate the flight controls software on a lot of today's aircraft. In a number of other engineering disciplines, Mathworks has been astute in developing toolboxes that answer the needs of industry. There will probably have to bit quite a bit more paid development of Julia and its ecosystem to deal Matlab death blows in industry. I hope for it to happen sooner rather than later, as the 70s-era Matlab language and Mathworks' exorbitant license fees are holding things back.
- 4thaccount 8y agoAgreed. The academic part of my industry is starting to use Julia at the National Labs level, but virtually all University and National Lab code is prototyped in Matlab and textbook examples are Matlab. So it has a lot of momentum with researchers who never learned Python, Julia...etc. I don't think Octave or Scilab are seriously used anywhere unfortunately. When I ask, I'm the only one who has heard of them.